An Inspector Calls

• MB: your just the kind of son-in-law i've always wanted
• MB: just a knighthood of course
• MB: a man has to make his own way
• MB: Yes, you don't know what some of these boys get up to nowadays'
• MB: Still, I can't accept any responsibility
• Sheila: 'I suppose it was all my fault really.'
• ERIC: (to Gerald) You're not going to let her go on like this are you?
• MB:Most of this is bound to come out. There'll be a public scandal.'
• MRSB:'Now, Arthur, I don't think you ought to talk business on an occasion like this
• MRSB: 'Girls of that class-'
• MRSB: 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility'
• MRSB: 'I think she had only herself to blame.'
• MRSB: 'feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position
• S: 'I'm sorry daddy'
• S: 'these girls aren't cheap labour'
• S: 'So I'm really responsible?'
• Eva is the symbolic representation of the working class
• Inspector Goole represents Priestly himself as he tries to make people realise their responsibility towards others
• The Birlings are the symbolic representation of the upper class
• S: 'I'm trying to tell the truth.'
• S: 'Don't interfere, please, Father'
• S: 'I'm afraid you'll say something or do something that you'll be sorry for afterwards'
• G: Unless Eric's been up to something. That would be awkward, wouldn't it?
• G: After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals
• G: "But how do you know it's the same girl?!
• MB: "A lively, good-looking girlA good worker too."
• G: "I couldn't get any exact details from her past life
• I: "I think she went away - to be alone, to be quiet, to remember all that had happened between you
• E: 'I don't know - really. Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh'
• E: "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?"
• E: "I stole some money, Gerald, you might as well know."
• E: "You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble.
• I: "They might. But after all, it's better to ask for the earth than to take it."
• I: "So you used the power you had"
• I: "yes, but you can't. She's dead."
• I: "Each of you helped to kill her."
• I: "They'll be taught it in blood and fire and anguish."
• MB: "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable."
• MB: "The world is developing so fast it'll make war impossible."
• G: "she was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life."