"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'sinevitable...-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-eyeddough-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 feltaboutme"
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"