inspector calls

• Mr Birling: '"Its one of the happiest nights of my life… your engagement to Shelia means a tremendous lot to me."'
• Mr Birling: '"We may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices."'
• Mr Birling: '"We employers are coming together to see that our interests – and the interests of Capital – are properly protected."'
• Mr Birling: '"You'll hear some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say – fiddlesticks!"'
• Mr Birling: '"There's a fair chance that I may find myself into the next honours list."'
• Mr Birling: '"By the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense."'
• Mr Birling: '"As it happened more than eighteen months ago – nearly two years ago – obviously it has nothing to do with the wretched girl's suicide."'
• Mr Birling: '"I can't accept any responsibility."'
• Mr Birling: '"It's my duty to keep labour costs down."'
• Mr Birling: '"Perhaps I ought to warn you that that [the Chief Constable is] and old friend of mine. We play golf together."'
• Mr Birling: '"I care. I was almost certain for a Knighthood in the next honours list."'
• Mr Birling: '"There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did."'
• Mr Birling: '"There'll be a public scandal… and who here will suffer for that more than I will?"'
• Mrs Birling: '"I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide."'
• Mrs Birling: '"I realise that you have to conduct some sort of inquiry, but I must say that so far you seem to be conducting it in a rather peculiar and offensive manner."'