An Inspector Calls - Key Quotations

Question 1

Sheila’s materialism

Answer 1

Careful! I’ll never let it go out of my sight for an instant.

Question 2

Mrs Birling upholding traditional values

Answer 2

I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing room and leave you men—

Question 3

Birling being untrustworthy

Answer 3

Yes, a very good time - and soon it’ll be an even better time.

Question 4

Birling having an inflated ego

Answer 4

I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business.

Question 5

Birling’s dramatic irony

Answer 5

Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.