Inspector calls quotes

• 'Pink and intimate'

  'Brighter and harder'


  Opening stage direction

  Before the inspector arrives to when he arrives.
• 'a heavy-looking, rather portentous man'


  Mr Birling

  Opening stage direction
• 'a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior' 


  Mrs Birling

  Opening stage direction
• 'a pretty girl [...] Very pleased with life'


  Sheila

  Opening stage direction
• 'well-bred young man-about-town.'


  Gerald

  Opening stage direction
• 'not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive'


  Eric

  Opening stage direction
• 'the sharp ring of a doorbell'


  Act One

  Stage direction
• 'creates at once an impression of massiveness'


  Act One

  Inspector Goole (interrupting Mr Birling)

  Stage direction
• 'cutting through massively'


  Act One

  Inspector Goole (interrupting Mr Birling)

  Stage direction
• 'it's better to ask for the earth than to take it' 


  Inspector Goole

  Act One
• 'there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us'


  Inspector Goole

  Act Three
• 'we are members of one body'


  Inspector Goole

  Act Three
• 'fire and blood and anguish'


  Inspector Goole

  Act Three
• 'It's exactly the same port your father gets' (to Gerald)


  Mr Birling

  Act One
• 'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable'


  Mr Birling

  Act One
• 'all mixed up like bees in a hive- community and all that nonsense'


  Mr Birling

  Act One
• 'yes, yes. Horrid business'


  Mr Birling

  Act One
• 'Now, Sheila, I'm not defending him. But you must understand that a lot of young men'


  Mr Birling

  Act Two
• '(triumphantly)'


  Stage direction

  Repeated by all older generation characters

  Act Three
• 'The whole story's just a lot of moonshine'


  Mr Birling

  Act Three
• '(the telephone rings sharply)'


  Act Three

  Stage direction
• 'girls of that class'


  Mrs Birling

  Act Two
• 'as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!'

  Mrs Birling

  Act Two
• 'impertinent ×3'


  Mrs Birling

  Act Two
• 'unlike the other three, I did nothing I'm ashamed of'


  Mrs Birling

  Act Two
• 'You're behaving like an hysterical child'


  Mrs Birling

  Act Two
• '(half serious, half playful)'


  Sheila

  Act One
• 'is it the one you wanted me to have?'

  Sheila

  Act One
• 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people' (to her father)


  Sheila

  Act One
• 'if they didn't get rid of that girl, I'd [...] Close our account with them'


  Sheila

  Act One
• 'Mother' 'Father' ('mummy' 'daddy' act One)

  Sheila

  Act Two
• 'he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves'


  Sheila

  Act Two
• 'You were the wonderful Fairy Prince'


  Sheila

  Act Two
• '(she hands him the ring)'

  Sheila

  Stage direction

  Act Two
• 'i must think' (ring)


  Sheila

  Act Three
• 'It frightens me the way you talk'


  Sheila

  Act Three
• '(Sheila moves towards the door)'


  Sheila Stage direction

  Act Three
• 'you couldn't have done anything else'(Mr Birling firing Eva)


  Gerald

  Act One
• 'She looked young and fresh and charming'

  'she was very pretty'


  Gerald

  Act Two
• 'fat carcass' (meggarty)


  Gerald

  Act Two