Inspector Quotes

• “A chain of events”
• “Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary. She’d been taken there this afternoon because she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course”
• “it’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it”
• “it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedroom”
• “And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?”
• “A girl died tonight. A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm. But she died in misery and agony- hating life-”
• “If there’s nothing else we have to share our guilt”
• (the young ones) “Are the most impressionable”
• “Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”
• “Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”
• “But remember this. One Eva Smith has gone- but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us"
• "…and died, after several hours of agony…”