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Unsinkable, absolutely
unsinkable.- Mr Birling
"She had no
business
to
come
here at all!" - Mrs B
"The girl was
drunk
when she came here last night." -
Gerald Croft
"I'm not going to be bullied by anybody"- Mrs
B
"It was my duty as a man to marry her."-
Gerald Croft
"I'm not going to be bullied by a lot of
women
into doing what they want"-
Mr Birling
"We are members of one
body
"- The
inspector
"It is the
duty
of every decent person to
prevent
crime if he can"- The inspector
"It is the
duty
of every decent man or woman to stick up for themselves against any kind of
insult.
"- Mr B
"A young woman of
twenty
is hardly more than a
child.
"- Mrs B
"If we don't look out the working class will have control of the government."- Mr
B
"We made her suffer because she dared to interfere with our comfort, our convenience, or our pleasure"- The
inspector
"
these girls mustn't get above themselves
"- Mr Birling
"She had no right to live, and die like that"-
Sheila
"There isn't any such thing as society"-
Mr Birling
"The whole thing has been a
nightmare
from beginning to end"-
Sheila
"I don't know why we have got to go on being so beastly to each other all the time"-
Eric
"She was a working class girl...she wasn't used to being treated like an equal"-
Sheila
"
I am not going to be bullied by a lot of silly girls.
"-
Eric
"She was just an
ordinary
girl like other girls."-
Gerald
"The girl was murdered last
night suicide
would have been too
easy
for her"- The inspector
"I am not
content
now that he has been brought to justice"-
Eva Smith
"It was my fault too"- Eric
"It was my duty to see that
Eva Smith
died respectably"-
Gerald Croft
"
you can't shut yourselves up in your own world
"
- The Inspector
"It was my duty to see that justice was done"-
The Inspector
"It is our duty to think about others"- The
inspector
"If you were my daughter..."-
Mrs Birling
"It is very
difficult
to explain how one feels at moments when one seems to see beyond or above oneself"-
Gerald Croft
"If you had known her at school she would never have done anything like this"-
Mrs Birling
"If she had lived long enough she might have become a real person instead of a mere creature driven from pillar to post"-
Mr Birling
"It is only when you see what happens that you realise how
dreadful
it is"-
Mrs Birling
"The time has come when we must take responsibility for the world we live in"-
The Inspector
"
I'm sorry
,
Daddy
" - Sheila
"The world's developing so fast that it'll make war impossible."-
Birling
"There'll be
peace
and
prosperity
"- Birling
"A man who can't face his own guilt will never be able to face anything else"-
The Inspector
"She was a human being...and you killed her!"-
The Inspector
"I caught sight of her smiling"-
Sheila
"Its a
favourite
haunt of women of the town"-
Gerald
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