AIC

• The Inspector: '"…he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness."'
• The Inspector: '"We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other."'
• The Inspector: '"if men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and blood and anguish."'
• The Inspector: '"You see, we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt."'
• The Inspector: '"You have no hope of not discussing it, Mrs Birling."'
• The Inspector: '"Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges."'
• The Inspector: '"after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it."'
• The Inspector: '"Sometimes there isn't much difference as you think…I wouldn't know where to draw the line."'
• The Inspector: '"I've thought that it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women"'
• The Inspector: '"One Eva Smith has gone – but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us"'
• Mr Birling: '"working together – for lower costs and higher prices."'
• Mr Birling: '"a man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course"'
• Mr Birling: '"I'm talking as a hard headed, practical man of business."'
• Mr Birling: '"(rather impatiently) Yes, yes. Horrid business."'
• Mr Birling: '"men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business."'
• Mr Birling: '"Still, I can't accept any responsibility."'
• Mr Birling: '"you'd 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."'
• Mr Birling: '"you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble"'
• Mr Birling: '"we've several hundred young women there, y'know, and they keep changing."'
• Mr Birling: '"Now look at the pair of them – the famous younger generation who know it all."'
• Mrs Birling: '"a rather cold woman."'
• Mrs Birling: '"(reproachfully) Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things"'
• Mrs Birling: '"Mrs Birling enters, briskly and self-confidently, quite out of key with the little scene that has just passed."'
• Mrs Birling: '"I think you ought to go to bed – and forget about this absurd business."'
• Mrs Birling: '"I did nothing I'm ashamed of or that won't bear investigation."'
• Mrs Birling: '"We've done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases."'
• Mrs Birling: '"In any case I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-"'
• Mrs Birling: '"If you think you can bring any pressure to bear upon me, Inspector, you're quite mistaken."'
• Mrs Birling: '"(bitterly) And this is the time you choose to tell me."'
• Mrs Birling: '"(very distressed now) No – Eric – please – I didn't know – I didn't understand-"'
• Gerald: '"All right. I knew her. Let's leave it at that."'
• Gerald: '"After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals."'
• Gerald: '"So – for God's sake – don't say anything to the Inspector… We can keep it from him."'
• Gerald: '"I think Miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning…she's obviously had about as much as she can stand."'
• Gerald: '"The girl saw me looking at her and then gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help."'
• Gerald: '"All right – I did for a time. Nearly any man would have done."'
• Gerald: '"that young man, Croft… at least had some affection for her and made her happy for a time."'
• Gerald: '"(distressed) Sorry – I – well, I've suddenly realized – taken it in properly – that's she's dead…"'
• Gerald: '"It's a favourite haunt of women of the town… I didn't propose to stay long down there."'
• Gerald: '"Everything's all right now, Sheila. (Holds up the ring.) What about this ring?"'