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An Inspector Calls - Key Quotes Flashcards

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“The money’s not the important thing. it’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters. And I still feel the same about it, and that’s why I don’t feel like sitting down and having a nice cosy talk”

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Eric

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“You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all”

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Eric

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“She treated me - as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was”

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Eric

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“I wasn’t in love with her or anything - but I liked her - she was pretty and a good sport”

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Eric

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“My God - I’m not likely to forget”

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Eric

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“(bitterly) You haven’t made it any easier for me, have you, mother”

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Eric

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“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck”

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Eric

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“I left ‘em talking about clothes again… women are potty about ‘em”

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Eric

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“Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?”

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Gerald

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“I didn’t feel for her as she felt about me”

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Gerald

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“It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town”

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Gerald

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“You’ve said your piece, and you’re obviously going to hate this so why on earth don’t you just leave us to it?”

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Gerald

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“Getting a little heavy-handed, aren’t you, Inspector?”

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Gerald

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“You seem like a nice well-behaved family”

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Gerald

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“Hear, hear! And I think my father would agree to that”

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Gerald

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“Now look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke”

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Mr Birling

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“(jovially) But the whole thing’s different now”

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Mr Birling

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“(triumphantly) There you are! Proof positive. the whole story’s just a lot of moonshine”

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Mr Birling

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“There’s every excuse for what your mother and I did”

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Mr Birling

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“(angrily) Yes, and you don’t realise yet all you’ve done. Most of this is bound to come out. There’ll be a public scandal”

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Mr Birling

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“I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can”

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Mr Birling

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“I don’t like the tone nor the way you’re handling this inquiry”

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Mr Birling

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“If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth”

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Mr Birling

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“If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward”

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Mr Birling

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“The way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense”

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Mr Birling

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“She’d had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go”

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Mr Birling

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“So long as we behave ourselves”

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Mr Birling

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“As a hard-headed business man, who has to tae risks and knows what he’s about”

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Mr Birling

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“lower costs and higher prices”

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Mr Birling

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“They’re over-tired. In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are”

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Mrs Birling

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“From the way you children talk, you might be wanting to help him instead of us. Now just be quiet so that your father can decide what to do”

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Mrs Birling

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“He should be made an example of. If the girl’s death is due to anybody, then it’s due to him”

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Mrs Birling

33
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“Simply absurd for a girl in her position”

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Mrs Birling

34
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“Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility”

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Mrs Birling

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“Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of or that would bear investigation”

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Mrs Birling

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“Girls of that class”

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Mrs Birling

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“What an expression Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!”

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Mrs Birling

38
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“Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things”

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Mrs Birling

39
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“You began to learn something. Now you’ve stopped. You’re ready to go on in the same old way”

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Sheila

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“I want to get out of this. It frightens me the way you talk”

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Sheila

41
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“I suppose we’re all nice people now”

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Sheila

42
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“It’s you two being childish by trying not to face the facts”

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Sheila

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“I behaved badly too. I know I did, I’m ashamed of it. But now you’re beginning all over again to pretend that nothing much has happened”

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Sheila

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“I rather respect you more than I’ve ever done before… You and I aren’t the same people who sat down for dinner here”

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Sheila

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“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, the the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does”

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Sheila

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“I’m not a child, don’t forget. I’ve a right to know”

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Sheila

47
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“I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry”

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Sheila

48
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“why - you fool - he knows. Of course he knows”

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Sheila

49
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“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody”

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Sheila

50
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“But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people”

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Sheila

51
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“I’m sorry, Daddy”

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Sheila

52
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“We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other… if men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and bloody and anguish”

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Inspector

53
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“One Eva Smith has gone but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”

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Inspector

54
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“Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it. But then I don’t think you ever will”

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Inspector

55
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“Her position now is that she lies with a burnt-out inside on a slab”

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Inspector

56
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“I think you did something terribly wrong - and that you’re going to spend the rest of your lives regretting it”

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Inspector

57
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“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”

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Inspector

58
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“Your daughter isn’t living on the moon. She’s here in Brumley too”

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Inspector

59
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“You see, we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”

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Inspector

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“Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead”

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Inspector

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“Often if it was left to me, L wouldn’t know where to draw the line”

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Inspector

62
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“A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it”

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Inspector

63
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“It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”

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Inspector

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“I hate those fat old tarts round the town - the ones I see your respectable friends with”

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Eric

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“You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble”

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Eric

66
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“It doesn’t matter to me. The one I knew is dead”

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Eric

67
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“And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?”

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Inspector

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“After all y’know, we’re responsible citizens and not criminals”

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Mr Birling

69
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“very pleased with life and rather excited”

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Stage Directions

70
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“The Germans don’t want war”

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Mr Birling

71
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“You’re behaving like a hysterical child tonight”

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Mrs Birling

72
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“As if a girl of that sort would refuse money”

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Mrs Birling

73
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“No he’s young man. And some young men have far too much to drink”

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Inspector

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“We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable”

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Inspector

75
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“At least I’m trying to tell the truth. I expect you’ve done things you’re ashamed of”

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Sheila

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“I hate those hard-eyed, dough-faced women”

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Gerald

77
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“a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too”

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Mr Birling

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