Inspector Calls Quotes Flashcards
‘Well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down’
Mr Birling- Act 1
‘I can’t accept any responsibility’
Mr Birling- Act 1
‘A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself – and his family too’
Mr Birling- Act 1
‘Is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you, Inspector?’.
Mr Birling- Act 2
‘I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List.’
Mr Birling- Act 3
‘This makes a difference, y’know. In fact, it makes all the difference’.
Mr Birling- Act 3
‘I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can’
Mr Birling- Act 3
‘When you’re married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes spend nearly all their time and energy on their business.’
Mrs Birling- Act 1
‘Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things’
Mrs Birling- Act 1
‘I don’t think you ought to talk business on an occasion like this.’
Mrs Birling- Act 1
You know, of course, that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago
Mrs Birling- Act 2
‘She had only herself to blame’
Mrs Birling- Act 2
‘Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility’
Mrs Birling- Act 2
‘It’s you – and not the Inspector’
Mrs Birling- Act 2
‘You seem to have made a great impression on this child’
Mrs Birling- Act 2
‘It would be much better if Sheila didn’t listen to this story at all’.
Mrs Birling- Act 2
‘but I didn’t know it was you’
Mrs Birling- Act 3
‘I was the only one who didn’t give in to him’.
Mrs Birling- Act 3
‘So I’m really responsible?’
Sheila- Act 1
‘Is it the one you wanted me to have… now I really feel engaged’
Sheila- Act 1
‘Why – you fool – he knows!’
Sheila- Act 1
‘Mummy – isn’t it a beauty?’
Sheila- Act 1
‘I’m afraid you’ll say something or do something that you’ll be sorry for afterwards’
Sheila- Act 2
‘We really must stop these silly pretences’
Sheila- Act 2
‘You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here’
Sheila- Act 2
‘Mother, I think that was cruel and vile.’
Sheila- Act 2
‘You don’t seem to have learnt anything’
Sheila- Act 3
‘It frightens me the way you talk.’
Sheila- Act 3
‘Everything we said had happened really happened’
Sheila- Act 3
Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
Eric- Act 1
‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?’
Eric- Act 1
‘You killed her! She came to you to protect me – and you turned her away… your own grandchild – you killed them both – damn you’.
Eric- Act 3
‘I wasn’t in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and a good sport’.
Eric- Act 3
‘She told me she didn’t want me to go in, but… I threatened to make a row’.
Eric- Act 3
‘I don’t give a damn’
Eric- Act 3
‘I think my father would agree to that, too.’
Gerald- Act 1
‘I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.’
Gerald- Act 2
‘What about this ring?’
Gerald- Act 3
‘A chain of events’
Inspector Goole- Act 1
‘Public men, Mr Birling, have their responsibilities as well as their privileges’.
Inspector Goole- Act 2
‘And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant things?’
Inspector Goole- Act 2
‘Each of you helped to kill her.’
Inspector Goole- Act 3
‘there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths’
Inspector Goole- Act 3
‘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’.
Inspector Goole- Act 3
