Inspector

• Public men, Mr Birling have responsibilities as well as privileges
• If men cannot learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish
• Don't stammer and yammer at me again man, I'm losing all patience with you
• Burnt her insides out of course
• the inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity, and purposefulness
• has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking
• (cutting through, massively)
• Because what happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards, and what happened to her afterwards may have driven her to suicide. A chain of events
• (dryly) I don't play golf
• She wasn't pretty when I saw her today, but she had been pretty- very pretty
• (harshly) Yes, but you can't. It's too late. She's dead.
• Yes. And she's right

  (very plainly) I said Yes- I do understand her. And she's right
• (sharply) Your daughter isn't living on the moon. She's here in Brumley too.