an inspector calls

• The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder.: 'p.3'
• "…lower costs and higher prices.": 'p. 6 Mr B'
• "Oh…is it the one you wanted me to have.": 'p. 6 Sheila'
• "I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business.": 'p. 8 Mr B'
• "The Germans don't want war…unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable…wild talk about possible labour trouble.": 'pp. 7-8 Mr B'
• "So long as we behave ourselves, don't get into the police court or start a scandal - eh? (Laughs complacently).": 'p. 9 Mr B'
• "…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.": 'p. 10 Mr B'
• "The Inspector…creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness…He speaks carefully, weightily.": 'p. 11'
• "Still, I can't accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward wouldn't it?": 'p. 14 Mr B'
• "If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth.": 'p. 15 Mr B'
• "…after two months, with no work, no money coming in, and living in lodgings, with no relatives to help her, few friends, lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate.": 'p. 19 Inspector'
• "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people.": 'p. 19 Sheila'
• "…it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms.": 'p. 19 Inspector'
• "A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody's made of it.": 'p. 20 Inspector'
• "…we're respectable citizens and not criminals.": 'p. 21 Gerald'
• "But she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn't be sorry for her.": 'p. 23 Sheila'
• "I don't come into this suicide business.": 'p. 24 Gerald'
• "Why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet.": 'p. 24 Sheila'
• "A girl died tonight. A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm.": 'p. 26 Inspector'
• "You see, we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt.": 'p. 26 Inspector'
• "You see, I feel you're beginning all wrong. And I'm afraid you'll say or do something that you'll be sorry for afterwards.": 'p. 27 Sheila'
• "Girls of that class.": 'p. 27 Mrs B'
• "You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down. And it'll be all the worse when he does.": 'p. 18 Sheila'
• "But we really must stop these silly pretences.": 'p. 29 Sheila'
• "He hasn't started on you yet.": 'p. 29 Sheila'
• "No, he's giving us the rope – so that we'll hang ourselves.": 'p. 30 Sheila'
• "He's a notorious womanizer as well as being one of the worst sots and rogues in Brumley.": 'p. 32 Gerald'
• "You were the wonderful fairy prince. You must have adored it, Gerald.": 'p. 34 Sheila'
• "She told me that she'd been happier than she'd ever been before – but that she knew it couldn't last – hadn't expected it to last.": 'p. 34 Gerald'
• "She felt there'd never be anything as good again for her – so she had to make it last longer.": 'p. 35 Inspector'
• "You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here.": 'p. 36 Sheila'
• "Public men…have responsibilities as well as privileges.": 'p. 37 Inspector'
• "…a piece of gross impertinence …she had only herself to blame…I didn't like her manner.": 'p. 39 Mrs B'
• "I wasn't satisfied with the girl's claim – she seemed to me to be not a good case – and so I used my influence to have it refused. And in spite of what's happened to the girl since, I consider I did my duty.": 'p. 39 Mrs B'
• "She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position.": 'p. 41 Mrs B'
• "As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money.": 'p. 41 Mrs B'
• "But I accept no blame for it at all.": 'p. 42 Mrs B'
• "He needs a drink now just to see him through.": 'p. 45'
• "I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row.": 'p. 45 Eric'
• "…she was pretty and a good sport.": 'p. 46 Eric'