Inspector calls quotes

Cards (38)

  • Mr Birling : "I speak as a hard-headed man of business"
  • Mr Birling : "you've a lot to learn yet"
  • Mr Birling : "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
  • Mr Birling : "Community and all that nonsence"
  • Mr Birling : "a man has to mind his own business and look after himself - and his family too"
  • Mr Birling : "i can't accept any responsibility"
  • Mr Birling : "as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense"
  • Mr Birling : "you hysterical young fool"
  • Mr Birling : "you're the one to blame for this"
  • Mr Birling : "there'll be a public scandal... i was almost certain for knighthood"
  • Mr Birling : "probably a socialist or some sort of crank"
  • Mrs Birling : "girls of that kind"
  • Mrs Birling : "Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!"
  • Mrs Birling : "a lot of silly nonsense! ... as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!"
  • Mrs Birling : "Naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case"
  • Mrs Birling : "i'm very sorry. But i think she has only herself to blame"
  • Mrs Birling : "you know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor"
  • Mrs Birling : "they're over-tired. In the morning, they'll be as amused as we are"
  • Sheila : [stage directions] "a pretty girl... pleased with life and rather excited"
  • Sheila : "is this the one you wanted me to have?"
  • Sheila : "yes, go on mummy"
  • Sheila : "but these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people"
  • Sheila : [stage directions] "urgently , cutting in"
  • Sheila : "... i went and pushed her further out, right into the streets, just because i was angry and she was pretty"
  • Sheila : "he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves"
  • Sheila : "i'm not a child"
  • Eric : "half shy, half assertive"
  • Eric : "in that state when a chap easily turns"
  • Eric : "why shouldn't they try for higher wages"
  • Eric : "she was pretty and a good sport"
  • Eric : "you killed her - and the child her she'd have had too - your grandchild"
  • Eric : "the fact remains i did what i did"
  • Eric : "the girl's dead and we all helped to kill her"
  • Goole : [stage directions] "lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives and then it should be brighter and harder"
  • Goole : "we are members of one body. we are responsible for each other"
  • Goole : "one Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths"
  • Goole : "fire and blood and anguish"
  • Gerald : "A very pretty girl too - with soft brown hair and big brown eyes... very pretty"