Cards (42)

  • Stage Directions (1)
    "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited"
  • Stage Directions (1)
    "not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive."
  • Mr Birling (1)
    "you'll hear some people say that war's inevitable...-fiddlesticks!"
  • Mr Birling (1)
    "And I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn't a chance of war."
  • Mr Birling (1)
    "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable."
  • Mr Birling (1)
    "as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense."
  • Mr Birling (1)
    "-that a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-and-
  • Stage Directions (1)
    "need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness."
  • Mr Birling (1)

    "If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth."
  • Eric (1)
    "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices."
  • Sheila (1)

    "...I can't help thinking about this girl -destroying herself so horribly- and I've been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn't told me"
  • Sheila (1)
    "But these girls aren't cheap labour -they're people."
  • Eric (1) 

    "...-and I've had a few drinks, including rather a lot of champagne- and I've got a headache-"
  • Gerald (1)

    "After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals."
  • Sheila (1)

    "And if I could help her now, I would-"
  • Shelia (1)

    "I feel now I can go there again. Oh-why had this to happen?"
  • Gerald (1)

    "D'you mind if I give myself a drink, Sheila?"
  • Mrs Birling (2)

    "Girls of that class -"
  • Sheila (2)

    "You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down. And it'll be all the worse when he does."
  • Mrs Birling (2)
    "-I consider- is a trifle impertinent, Inspector"
  • Sheila (2)

    "But we really must stop these silly pretences."
  • Sheila (2)

    "No, he's giving us the rope- so that we'll hang ourselves."
  • Gerald (2)
    "It's a favourite haunt of women of the town-"
  • Gerald (2)

    " I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women."
  • Gerald (2)
    "she'd better let me take her out of there. She agreed at once"
  • Gerald (2)
    "So I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms and I made her take some money to keep her going there."
  • Gerald (2)

    "I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her."
  • Gerald (2)

    "I became at once that most important person in her life"
  • Gerald (2)

    "I didn't feel about her as she felt about me"
  • Mrs Birling (2)
    "But I think she had only herself to blame."
  • Mrs Birling (2)
    "Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility"
  • Mrs Birling (2)

    "As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!"
  • Eric (3)

    "I was a bit squiffy"
  • Eric (3)

    "I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I threatened to make a row"
  • Eric (3)

    "I wasn't in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-"
  • Eric (3)

    "-my child-your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn-"
  • Inspector (3)
    "But each of you help to kill her."
  • Birling (3)

    " Look, Inspector- I'd give thousands- yes, thousands-"
  • Inspector (3)
    "there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us"
  • Inspector (3)

    "We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other"