inspector calls quotes

Question 1

name 5 mr birling quotes?

Answer 1

• “unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
• “we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense”
• “probably a socialist or some sort of crank”
• “a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too of course”
• “you’ll hear some people say war is inevitable … fiddlesticks!”

Question 2

name 5 eric quotes?

Answer 2

• “your not the kind of father a chap would go to when hes in trouble”
• “and thats when it happened. and i dont even remember, thats the hellish thing”
• “(shouting) and i say the girls dead and we all helped to kill her and thats what matters”
• ” i’d have let her stay”
• “in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

Question 3

name 5 mrs birling quotes?

Answer 3

• “girls of that class”
• “i’m very sorry, but i think she only had herself to blame”
• “iv done nothing wrong and you know it”
• “go and look for the father of the child, it’s his responsibility”
• “as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
• “he ought to be dealt with very severely … make sure that he’s compelled to confess in public, its his responsibility”

Question 4

name 5 shiela quotes?

Answer 4

• “yes, go on mummy”
• “these girls aren’t cheap labour, theyre people”
• “ill never do it again to anybody… i feel now i can never go their again”
• “no, hes giving us the rope, so that we’ll hang ourselves”
• “it frightens me the way you talk”

Question 5

name 5 inspector quotes?

Answer 5

• “it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”
• “need not be a big man, but he creates at once an impression of massiveness solidity and purposefullnes”
• “public men, mr birling have responsibilities aswell as privilidges”
• “we don’t live alone we are members of one body we are responsible for eachother”
• “1 eva smith is gone, but there are millions and millions of john and eva smiths still left with us”
• “if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”

Question 6

name 5 gerald quotes?

Answer 6

• “that man wasn’t a police officer … i’m almost certain
• “everythings alright now shiela, now what about this ring”
• “she was young and pretty and warm hearted”
• ” you couldn’t have done anything else”
• “were respectable citizens, and not criminals”
• ” an attractive chap, about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man about town”