inspector calls quotes

• arthur birling is a heavy looking rather portentous man
• a rather cold woman
• a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
• very much the well-bred young man-about-town
• yes go on mummy
• i was awfully busy at the works all that time
• youll have to get used to that just as i had
• oh- its wonderful! Look - mummy - isnt it a beauty?
• now i really feel engaged
• ill never let it go out of my sight
• im talking as a hard headed practical man of business
• unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
• a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself and his family too, of course
• youd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense
• a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own - and - (we hear the sharp ring of a doorbell)
• need not be a big man but creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
• two hours ago a young woman died in the infirmary. shed been taken there this afternoon because shed swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. burnt her inside out, of course
• you couldnt have done anything else
• he could have kept her on instead of throwing her out
• its better to ask for the earth that to take it
• why shouldnt they try for higher wages? we try for the highest possible prices.. id have let her stay
• and ive been so happy tonight. oh i wish you hadnt told me
• but these girls arent cheap labour - theyre people
• after all y'know we're respectable citizens not criminals
• she was very pretty
• its the only time ive ever done anything like that, and ill never, never do it again to anybody
• why - you fool - he knows. of course he knows
• why should you [stay]? its bound to be unpleasant and disturbing
• and you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?
• (massively taking charge)
• a pretty, lively sort of girl
• i know im to blame - and im desperately sorry - but i cant believe - i wont believe - its simply my fault that in the end she - she commited suicide. that would be too horrible -
• if nothing else, we'll have to share out guilt
• you mustnt try to build up a kind of wall between us and that and that girl. if you do the inspector will just break it down. and itll be all the worse when he does
• no, hes giving us the rope so that we'll hang ourselves
• [daisy] gave me a glance that was no less than a cry for help
• i didnt install her their so i could make love to her ... i was sorry for her
• public men, mr birling, have responsibilities as well as privilidges
• if you think you can bring any pressure to bear upon me, inspector your quite mistake,. unlike the other three, i did nothing im ashamed of
• go look for the father of the child. its his responsibility