Character Qotes Part II - An Inspector Calls

Question 1

Mrs birling

Answer 1

1.”don’t suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-“
2.”l’ll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.”
3.”You know of course that my husband was lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate.”
4”I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept no blame for it at all.”

Question 2

Sheila

Answer 2

1. “I know I’m to blame – and I’m desperately sorry.”
2. “He’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves.”
3. “But that’s not what I’m talking about. I don’t care about that. The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything.”
4. “Everything we said had happened really had happened. If it didn’t end tragically, then that’s lucky for us.”

Question 3

Eric

Answer 3

1.”why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?” - towards mr b about the working class
2.”Because you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.”
3.”as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person.”
4.”You don’t understand anything. You never did. You never even tried!”
(Bonus quote - “and I say the girls dead and we killed her - that’s what matters”)

Question 4

Gerald

Answer 4

1. “I went down into the bar for a drink. It’s a favorite haunt of women of the town -“
2. “I’m rather more – upset – by this business than I probably appear to be .”
3. “had some affection for her and made her happy for a time.” - the inspector about Gerald and daisy
4. “I don’t come into this suicide business”

Question 5

Inspector Goole

Answer 5

1. “This girl killed herself- but each of you helped to kill her.”
2. “Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.”
3. “But after all, it is better to ask for the world than to take it.”
4. “We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.” - this quote is fucking huge but you could probably just split it up and use random parts of it

Question 6

Edna

Answer 6

1.”yes sir”

Question 7

Mr birling

Answer 7

1.”fiddlesticks! the Germans don’t want war. nobody wants war.”
2.”I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business.”
3.”You! You don’t seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List.”
4.”It has nothing whatever to do with this wretched girls suicide. Eh, Inspector?”
(Bonus quote - “The titanic- she sails next week’-‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”)