An Inspector Calls Flashcards
You’re just the kind…..
(Mr B)
You’re just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted (Mr B)
I’m talking as a hard-headed….
(Mr B)
I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business… there isn’t a chance of war (Mr B)
… unsinkable…
(Mr B)
… unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable (Mr B)
…a man has to make…
” (Mr B as Inspector arrives)
…a man has to make his own way – has to look after himself… community and all that nonsense” (Mr B as Inspector arrives)
She’d had a lot to say…
(Mr B)
She’d had a lot to say – far too much – so she had to go
(Mr B)
I’ve got to….
(Mr B)
I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can
(Mr B)
I’m very sorry….
(Mrs B)
I’m very sorry. But I think she had only herself to blame
(Mrs B)
Go and look…
(Mrs B)
Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility
(Mrs B)
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings….
(Mrs B)
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position
(Mrs B)
I was the only one…
(Mrs B)
I was the only one of you who didn’t give in to him”
(Mrs B)
These girls aren’t…
(Sheila)
These girls aren’t cheap labour. They’re people
(Sheila)
You and I aren’t…
(Sheila)
You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here
(Sheila)
Mother, I think it…
(Sheila)
Mother, I think it was cruel and vile
(Sheila)
You’re beginning to pretend…
(Sheila)
You’re beginning to pretend all over again that nothing much has happened
(Sheila)
Well, he inspected…
(Sheila)
Well, he inspected us all right. And let’s not start dodging and pretending now. Between us we drove that girl to suicide
(Sheila)
I was in that state…
(Eric)
I was in that state when a chap easily gets nasty
(Eric)
She didn’t want me to marry her… In a way, she treated me as if I were a kid
(Eric)
She didn’t want me to marry her… In a way, she treated me as if I were a kid
(Eric)
…you’re not the kind…
(Eric)
…you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble
(Eric)
It’s what happened…
(Eric)
It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters
(Eric)
…my child – your own…
(Eric)
…my child – your own grandchild – you killed them both – damn you, damn you
(Eric)
I think Miss Birling ought…
(Gerald)
I think Miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning
(Gerald)
I didn’t install here there…
(Gerald)
I didn’t install here there so that I could make love to her
(Gerald)
She told me she’d been happier…
(Gerald)
She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before
(Gerald)
Everything’s all…
(Gerald)
Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?
(Gerald)
Burnt her…
(The Inspector)
Burnt her inside out… she was in great agony
(The Inspector)
What happened to her…
(The Inspector)
What happened to her… a chain of events
(The Inspector)
It’s better to ask…
(The Inspector)
It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it
(The Inspector)
