Inspector Goole Quotes Flashcards
One person…
…and one line of enquiry at a time. Otherwise there is a muddle.
It’s my duty…
…to ask questions
I’m not going…
…until I know all that happened
(Sheila) You talk…
…as if we were responsible
In fact, I’ve thought…
…that it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies inn their dingy little back bedrooms”
That’s more or less…
…what I was thinking earlier tonight, when I was in the infirmary looking at what was left of Eva Smith. A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it”
(Gerald) Getting a bit…
…heavy-handed aren’t you, Inspector?
(Sheila) Why - you fool…
…he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet.
You see…
…we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.
(Mrs Birling) You seem to have…
made a great impresson on this child, Inspector.
(Inspector)We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.
That- I consider…
…-is a trifle impertinent, Insector.
You needn’t…
…give me any rope
(Sheila)No, he’s giving us rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves
Don’t stammer…
…and yammer at me man. I’m losing all patience with you people
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 the men will not learn their lessons, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish
(Mr Birling) Then look at…
…the way he talked to me. Telling me to shut up- and so on.He must have known I was an ex-Lord Mayor and a magistrate and so forth. Besides- the was he talked- you remember. I mean, they don’t talk like that.
