Inspector calls

• pink and intimate’ then ‘brighter and harder’
• portentous man … but rather provincial in his speech’
• ‘a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior’
• ‘Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
• ‘the easy well-bred young man about town’
• ‘not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive’
• ‘Giving us the port, Edna? That’s right.’
• ‘She’ll make you happy, and I’m sure you’ll make her happy
• ‘You’re just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted’.
• ‘The Germans don’t want war’ / ‘And I say, there isn’t a chance of war’
• ‘The Titanic....unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
• ‘a man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course’
• As if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive-community and all that nonsense
• an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness.’
• ‘Because what happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards, and what happened to her afterwards, may have driven her to suicide. A chain of events.’
• ‘Look – Mummy – isn’t it a beauty?
• 1 Pretty?
• Mummy sent me in’.
• But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.’
• ‘Oh don’t be stupid… you gave yourself away as soon as he mentioned the other name’
• You fool – he knows.’
• ‘I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her.’

  Gerald
• It was simply a piece of gross impertinence’
• Mother, I think it was cruel and vile.’
• ‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.’
• As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money.’
• ‘I left ‘em talking about clothes again […] ‘women are potty about ‘em.’
• Yes, and so was I. I was in a hell of a state about it.’
• ‘Yes, I insisted – it seems.’
• ‘I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty.’
• ‘I hate these fat old tarts round the town.’
• ‘(nearly at breaking point) you killed her – and the child she'd have had too – my child – your own grandchild – you killed them both – damn you, damn you.’
• There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths’
• We don’t live alone. We are members of one body.’
• ‘They will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.’
• ‘I don’t come into this suicide business’
• I think Miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning […] she’s had a long, exciting and tiring day [..] she’s obviously had about as much as she can stand.’
• ‘I hate those hard-eyed, dough-faced women
• She was very pretty – soft brown hair and big dark eyes.’
• ‘I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her.’