QUOTES

• 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"