inspector calls quotes Flashcards
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“for … prices”
“for lower costs and higher prices”
“i think Sheila… you men”
“i think Sheila and i had better go into the drawing room and leave you men”
“I’m sorry… listening”
“I’m sorry daddy. actually i was listening”
“I speak… man”
“I speak as a hard headed business man”
“unsinkable…”
“unsinkable absolutely unsinkable”
“a man has to make… and his family too”
“a man has to make his own way, has to look after himself, and his family too of course”
“that a man has to… -and-“ *door bell rings
“that a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-and-“ *door bell rings
“yes, yes… come her, inspector”
“yes, yes horrid business but i don’t understand why you should come here, inspector”
“you’ve had… Eric”
“you’ve had enough of that port, Eric”
“wretched… suicide”
“wretched girls suicide”
“oh… accident?”
“oh how horrible. Was it an accident?”
“sorry!… this girl”
“sorry! its just i cant help thinking about this girl”
“why the devil… the child like that?”
“why the devil do you want to go upsetting a child like that?”
“She was… care of herself”
“She was very pretty and looked like she could take care of herself”
“she was young… you understand?”
“she was young and pretty and warm-hearted -and intensely grateful. i became at once the most important person in her life , you understand?”
“she knew… it to last”
“she knew it couldn’t last, hadn’t expected it to last”
“public men… as privileges”
“public men, Mr Birling have responsibilities as well as privileges”
” i did… of”
“i did nothing I’m ashamed of”
“Go and look…his responsibility”
“Go and look for the father of the child. its his responsibility”
“but i… for it at all”
“But i accept no blame for it at all”
“You’re behaving…tonight”
“You’re behaving like a hysterical child tonight”
“well i was in that state… make a row”
“well i was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty, and i threatened to make a row.”
“I wasn’t… and a good sport”
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything, but i liked her, she was pretty and a good sport”
“In a way… as old as she was”
“In a way, she treated me as if i were a kid. Though i was nearly as old as she was”
