aic

• mr birling (act 3)

  • 'the famous younger generation who know it all and they can’t even take a joke'
• mr birling (act 1)

  • 'a man has to take his own way'
• • mr birling (act 1)

  'the titanic she sails next week unsinkable. absolutely unsinkable'
• • mrs birling (act 1)

  'a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior'
• • mrs birling (act 1)

  'when you're married you'll realise that men with important work spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. you'll have to get used to that just as i did'
• • mrs birling (act 2)

  'she was claiming elaborate finer feelings...that was simply absurd for a girl in her position'
• • gerald (act 3)

  'everything's alright now sheila what about this ring'
• • gerald (act 2)

  'miss birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning'
• • gerald (act 1)

  'your just the kind of son in law i always wanted' {MrB to GC}
• • eric (act 2)

  'your not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble'
• eric (act 3)

  'i was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty'
• eric (act 3)

  'then - you killed her. she came to you to protect me - and your turned her away - yes, you killed her - and the child she'd have had too - my child - your own grandchild - you killed them both, damn you'
• sheila (act 1)

  '[taking out the ring] oh it's wonderful look mummy - isn't it a beauty!'
• • sheila (act 1)

  'but these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people'
• • sheila (act 3)

  'your forgetting one thing i still can't forget. everything we said had happened had really happened - it frightens me the way you talk'
• • inspector (act 1)

  'a man of massiveness solidity and purposefulness'
• • inspector (act 3)

  'if men will not learn that lesson they will be taught it in fire blood and anguish'
• inspector (act 3)

  'don't stammer and yammer at me again man i'm losing my patience with you people'
• eva smith/daisy renton (act 3)

  'one eva smith has gone but there are millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths still left with us' {inspector}
• stage directions (act 1)

  'pink and intimate until the inspector arrives then it should be brighter and harder'
• stage directions (act 1)

  'not cosy and home like'
• stage directions (act 3)

  'small table with a telephone on it'