An Inspector Calls
Cards (14)
- Still, I can’t accept any responsibility‘’A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself and his family too’’its my duty to keep labour costs down’
- ‘But I accept no blame for it at all’’I’ve done nothing wrong - and you know it’
- ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’’i Know I’m to blame - and I’m desperately sorry’’the point is you don’t seem to have learnt anything’
- ‘you’re beginning to pretend that nothing happened at all’’i did what I did’
- ’we are members of one body’’you used the power you had to punish the girl’
- ‘If you don’t come down hard on these people they’ll soon be asking for the world’’for Lower costs and higher prices’
- ‘ask for the earth’‘But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it’
- ‘Girls of that class’‘she was giving herself ridiculous airs’’naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her’
- ‘It’s my duty to keep labour costs down’
- ‘I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very impertinent - and - and.’
- ‘ I didn’t like her manner’’i wasn’t satisfied with the girl’s claim’’so I used my influence to have it refused’
- ’when you’re married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on buissiness. you’ll get used to it just as I had
- ‘I wasn’t in love her or anything but I liked her and she was pretty and a good sport’
- it would do us all some good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these women