An Inspector Calls Flashcards
Sheila quote
He’s giving us the rope so we can hang ourselves
I can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying herself so horribly- and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn’t told me.”
“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”
Look, mummy, isn’t it a beauty?’
Eric
“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the hellish thing.”
“Half shy half assertive”
I don’t see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself. You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can’t.
Whoever that chap was, the fact remains that I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her. It’s still the same rotten story whether it’s been told to a police inspector or to somebody else
Mr Birking
You! You don’t seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List-‘
“You’ll hear some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say – fiddlesticks!”
“(rather impatiently) Horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here.”
a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself”
