AIC QUOTES Flashcards
6 Mr Birling Quotes
‘hard-headed practical man of buisness’
‘look inspector i’d give thousands - yes thousands’
‘is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you, inspector’
‘clothes mean something quite different to women … something to make em look prettier’
‘for lower costs and higher prices’
‘The Germans don’t want war’
6 Mrs Birling Quotes
“i didn’t like her manner she’d impertantly made use of our name”
“girls of that class”
“i used my influence to get it refused”
“i blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have”
“arthur your not supposed to say such things”
“you’re quite wrong to suppose i shall regret what i did”
6 shiela quotes
“but these girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people”
“i tell you - whoever that inspector was, it was anything but a joke”
“Gerald - you’ve got it - is it the one you wanted me to have?”
“half serious, half playful”
“now i really feel engaged”
“so i’m really responsible?”
6 eric quotes
“half shy, half assertive”
“ i was in a state where a chap easily turns nasty”
“you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to”
“ i didn’t even remeber that’s the hellish thing”
“my god - i’m not likely to forget”
“could i have a drink first?”
7 gerald quotes
“ i didn’t install her there so i could make love to her”
“well bred, young man about town”
“except for last summer when you never came near me”
“we’re respectable citizens not criminals”
“i don’t come into this suiside business”
“therefore no proof it was the same girl”
“young women aught ti be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things”
6 eva quotes
“young and fresh and charming”
“there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths”
“wretched girls suiside”
“lively good looking girl”
“she only had herself to blame”
“as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
6 inspector goole quotes
interrupts “very sharply”
“we are members of one body”
“(he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidarity and purposefullness”
“it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”
“the girls dead though”
“there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths”
6 Responsibility quotes
“at least i’m trying to tell the truth. i expect you’ve done things your ashamed of too”
“you lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but i can’t”
“in the circumstances i think i was justified”
“but i accept no blame for it all”
“there’s every excuse for what your mother and i did”
“she didn’t blame me at all”
