AIC quotes Flashcards
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour -they’re people’
Sheila to Mr Birling
‘As if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive’
Mr Birling
‘The Titanic…unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
Mr Birling
‘Hard-headed practical man of business’
Mr Birling
‘Is it the one you wanted me to have?’
(Sheila to Gerald)
‘He creates at once an impression of massiveness. solidity and purposefulness’
The Inspector (stage directions)
‘alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate’
Inspector about Eva
‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’
Inspector to Mr Birling
‘I was in that state when chap easily turns nasty’
Eric
‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
Mrs Birling about Eva
‘I liked her - she was pretty and a good sport’
(Eric about Eva)
‘No he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves’
Sheila about the Inspector
‘used her … as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person’
Eric
‘They will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’
The Inspector
‘There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths…’
The Inspector
