AIC Quotes Flashcards
Act 1: Class
o “girls of that class”
o “But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people”
o “we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”
Act 2: Class
o “massively taking charge”
o “No, no. I never take offence”
o “Nothing less than a cry for help”
Act 3: Class
o “I’m not very clear about it”
o “you’re not the type – you don’t get drunk”
o “She wouldn’t take anymore”
Act 1: Young vs. Old
o “Of course she does”
o “my daughter” / “she”
o “Run along”
Act 2: Young vs. Old
o “this child”
o “she’s right”
o “be quiet, Sheila”
Act 3: Young vs. Old
o “That’s enough, Sheila”
o “(explosively) No”
o “it’s you two who are being childish”
Act 1: Sexism
o “wretched girl”
o “We shall be along in a minute”
o “The girl”
Act 2: Sexism
o “He means that I’m getting hysterical now”
o “you’re a man”
o “I didn’t install her there” / “allowed”
Act 3: Sexism
o “That’s enough Sheila”
o “I’m not very clear about it”
o “fat old tarts”
Act 1: Responsibility
o “all mixed up together like bees in a hive” / “community and all that nonsense”
o “You talk as if we were responsible”
o “you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else”
Act 2: Responsibility
o “we have to share something … we’ll have to share our guilt”
o “That doesn’t make it any less yours”
o “Public men … have responsibilities as well as privileges”
Act 3: Responsibility
o “the responsibility between you”
o “each of you helped to kill her” / “He looks from one to the other of them”
o “We don’t love alone” / “And I tell you” / “they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”
Act 1: Capitalism vs. Socialism
o “it’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it”
o “Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages
o “living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country” / “the factories and warehouses wouldn’t know where to look for cheap labour” / “Ask your father”
o “Sometimes there isn’t as much difference as you may think”
Act 3: Capitalism vs. Socialism
o “You’re offering the money at the wrong time”
o “there are millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths”
o “intertwined with our lives and what we think and say and do”
o “Probably just a Socialist or some sort of crank”
Act 1: Dramatic Irony
o “We’ve passed the worst of it” o “silly little war scares” o “The Germans don’t want war” o “unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable” o “There’ll be peace and prosperity”
