An Inspector Calls quotes Flashcards
Sheila’s take on capitalism
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people’
Mr Birling simile for community
‘like bees in a hive’
Mr Birling on community
‘community and all that nonsense’
Mr Birling’s responsibility
‘it’s my duty to keep labour costs down’
Inspector and the balance of responsibility and wealth
‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’
Mrs Birling’s lack of responsibility
‘I accept no blame for it at all’
Inspector final speech quotes (2)
‘millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths’
‘We are members of one body. We are responsible for eachother’
Mr B speaking for Sheila
‘Sheila’s a lucky girl’
Mr Birling to women
‘after all I don’t often make speeches at you’
Mr B misogynistic ideas
‘clothes mean something quite different to a woman’
Gerald about Sheila
‘She’s had a long, exciting and tiring day’
Mrs B being anti-women
‘your father can decide what we ought to do’
Mr B work morals and importance in the marriage
‘for lower costs and higher prices’
Eric and capitalism v socialism
‘It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters’
Mr B’s only concern
‘The press might easily’
‘there’ll be a public scandal’
Sheila’ take on lack of guilt
‘I suppose we’re all nice people now’
Eric’s take on lack of guilt
‘It’s still the same rotten story’
Stage directions on social class
‘her husband’s social superior’
Mr B dramatic irony
‘I say there isn’t a chance of war’
Mr B to Gerald on social class
‘feels you might have done better for yourself socially’
Mr B and how he responds to the working class
‘If you don’t come down sharply[…] they’d soon be asking for the earth’
Mr B assumptions about Eva
‘Get into trouble? Go on the streets?’
Mrs B about Eva (2)
‘girls of that class’
‘as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
Mr B power in business
‘how I choose to run my business’
