An Inspector calls Flashcards
“[Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in speech. His wife about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior]”
Act 1
“She’ll make you happy, and I’m sure you’ll make her happy”
Act 1
-Mr Birling
“He’s been steadily drinking too much for the past two years”
Act 2
Sheila
“Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of”
Act 1
Mrs Birling
“Burnt her inside out… she was in great agony”
Act 1
Inspector
“We look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together- for lower costs and higher prices”
Act 1
-Mr Birling
“And I know I’m to blame – and I’m desperately sorry”
Act 2
Sheila
“I have an idea that your mother- Lady Croft- while she doesn’t object to my girl- feels you might have done better for yourself socially”
Act 1
-Mr Birling
“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here”
Act 2
Sheila
“But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonsense”
Act 1
-Mr Birling
“But take my word for it, you youngsters- and I’ve learnt in the good hard school of experience”
Act 1
-Mr Birling
“The INSPECTOR need not to be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness]”
Act 1
-Mr Birling
“But after all it’s better to ask for the world than to take it”
-Inspector
-Act 1
-Theme= responsibility and how the Birling family are selfish.
“Rubbish if you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the world”.
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibility as well as privileges”.
-Inspector
“I think you did something terribly wrong- and that you’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it”.
-Inspector
” Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it”.
-Inspector
“There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”.
-Inspector
“We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other”.
-Inspector
“If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire, blood and anguish”.
-Inspector
“Hard-headed businessman”.
Mr Birling
“I’m sorry Daddy, she looks attentively”.
Sheila
“Just because the miners came out on strike, there’s a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble in the near future”.
Mr Birling
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, they are people”.
Sheila
“I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end, but I accept no blame for it at all”
Mr Birling
“I suppose we are all nice people now”.
Sheila
“The famous younger generation who know it all”.
Mr Birling
“If there’s nothing else, we will have to share our guilt”.
Inspector
“We don’t live alone, we are members of one body”
Mr Birling
“Yes but you can’t now, she’s dead”
Inspector
“I blame the young man who was the father of the child”
Mrs Birling
“It’s my duty to keep labour costs down”
Mr Birling
“She didn’t want me to marry her… In a way, she treated me as if I were a kid”
Eric
“… unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
Mr Birling
“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody… I feel I can never go there again”
Sheila
“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out”
Eric
“It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters”
Eric
“…each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it”
Inspector
“Just because the miners came out on strike, there’s a lot of wild talk about the possible labour troubles”.
Mr Biring
“She felt there’d never be anything as good again for her”
Inspector
“You’ll be able to divide the responsibility between you when I’ve gone”
Inspector
“Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?”
Gerald
“Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of”
Mrs Birling
“Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility”
Mrs Birling
“You’re beginning to pretend all over again that nothing much has happened”
Sheila
“I didn’t install here there so that I could make love to her”
Gerald
“But you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.”
Eric
“She was pretty and a good sport”
Eric
“Cry for help”
Gerald about Eva
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”
Mrs Birling
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
Eric
“She was very pretty- soft brown hair and big dark eyes”
Gerald
