An Inspector Calls Quotes

• 'Just a knighthood, of course' Mr Birling
• 'As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all the nonsense' - Mr Birling
• 'And I say there isn't a chance of war' Mr Birling
• 'for lower costs and higher prices' Mr Birling
• 'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable' Mr Birling
• 'we've past the worst of it (...) and we're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity' Mr Birling
• 'Well, we've several hundred young women there y'know' Mr Birling
• 'If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd has anything to do with, it would be very awkward wouldn't it' Mr Birling
• 'It's my duty to keep labour costs down' Mr Birling
• 'They'd soon be asking for the earth' Mr Birling

  'It's better to ask for the earth than to take it' Inspector
• 'We were having a nice little family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you've made of it now, haven't you?'
• 'A chain of events' Inspector
• 'a nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess someone's made of it' Inspector
• 'Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibility as well as privileges' Inspector
• 'millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths' Inspector
• 'their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering' Inspector
• 'they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish' Inspector
• 'we don't live alone, we are members of one body, we are responsible for each other' Inspector
• 'you seem to have made a great impression on this child, Inspector' Mrs Birling
• 'I don't understand you inspector' Mrs Birling

  'You mean you don't choose to do' Inspector
• 'she had only herself to blame' Mrs B
• 'as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!' Mrs B
• 'girls of that class-' Mrs B
• 'I blame the young man who was the father' Mrs B
• 'I'll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child, it's his responsibility' Mrs B
• 'I accept no blame for it all' Mrs B
• 'surely you don't mean Alderman Meggarty' Mrs B
• 'after all, y'know, we're respectable citizens not criminals' Gerald
• 'young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful' Gerald
• 'I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her' Gerald
• 'you're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted' Mr Birling
• 'easy, well-bred young man-about-town' Gerald
• 'I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women' Gerald
• 'it wasn't disgusting' Gerald
• 'you're squiffy' Sheila
• '(gaily) mummy sent me' Sheila
• 'Now I really feel engaged' Sheila
• 'fire and blood and anguish' Sheila
• 'all last summer when you never came near me' Sheila
• 'you and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here' Sheila