Quotes Flashcards
Inspector Goole
“If men will not learn that lesson they will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish.”
“We have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.”
“it is better to ask for the earth than to take it”
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.”
Arthur Birling
“Got to cover this up as soon as I can.”
“If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d be soon asking for the earth”
“A man has to mind his own business, and look after himself and his own.”
“We were having a nice little family celebration tonight, and a nasty mess you’ve made of it now.”
Sybil Birling
“Girls of that class-“
“She called herself Mrs Birling. It was simply a piece of gross impertinence.”
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money.”
“She only had herself to blame”
Eric Birling
“I was in a state where a man easily turns nasty”
“You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all and I can’t really see it like that”
“In a way, she treated me as if I were a kid”
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages, we try for the highest possible prices”
Sheila Birling
“Now I really feel engaged”
“These girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people”
“He’s giving us the rope so that we’ll hang ourselves”
“If she’d been some miserable plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it”
Gerald Croft
“I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women”
“You couldn’t have done anything else”
“I made her go to Morgan terrace because I was sorry for her”
“Don’t say anything to the inspector we can keep it from him”
Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
“You used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening as if she was an animal”
“Both her parents were dead so she’d have no home to go back to”
“I couldn’t remember her name or where she lived”
“I became one of the most important people in her life”
