Quotes + Analysis Flashcards

1
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First quote for Mr Birling

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All mixed up like bees in a hive

Act 1

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2
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Second quote for Mr Birling

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Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

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3
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Third quote for Mr Birling

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The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-[Telephone rings sharply]

Act 3 = the last line by Mr Birling in the play

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4
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Fourth quote for Mr Birling

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You! You don’t seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List.

Act 3

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5
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Fifth quote for Mr Birling

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a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-and-[We hear the sharp ring of a front doorbell.]

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6
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First quote for Mrs Birling

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As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse any money

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7
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Second quote for Mrs Birling

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You know, of course, that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate

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8
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Third quote for Mrs Birling

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She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position

Act 2

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8
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Fourth quote for Mrs Birling

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No, of course not. He’s only a boy

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9
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Fifth quote for Mrs Birling

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I used my influence to have it refused

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10
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First quote for Sheila

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[Slowly, carefully now] You musn’t try to build up a sort of wall between us and that girl

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11
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Second quote for Sheila

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I tell - whoever that Inspector was, it was anything but a joke

Act 3

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12
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Third quote for Sheila

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[laughs rather hysterically] Why-you fool- he knows. Of course, he knows.

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13
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Fourth quote for Sheila

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But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people

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14
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Fifth quote for Sheila

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Now I feel really engaged

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15
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First quote for Eric

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Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices

Act 1

16
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Second quote for Eric

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I don’t - really. Suddenly felt I just had to laugh

Act 1

17
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Third quote for Eric

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You killed her-and the child she’d have had too-my child!

Act 3

18
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Fourth quote for Eric

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I was in the state when a chap easily turns nasty

Act 3

19
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Fifth quote for Eric

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[shouting ] And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her-and that’s what matters-

Act 3

20
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First quote for Inspector Goole

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I didn’t do it. She’s upsetting herself

Act 1

21
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Second quote for Inspector Goole

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Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smith and John Smiths still left with us

22
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Third quote for Inspector Goole

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We are members of one body-we are responsible for each other

Act 3

23
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Fourth quote for Inspector Goole

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the time will soon come when, if men will not that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

Act 3

24
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Fifth quote for Inspector Goole

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Need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness.

25
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First quote for Gerald

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I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted and intensely grateful

Act 2

26
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Second quote for Gerald

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She’s had a long, exciting and tiring day…and now she’s obvious had about as much as she can stand

Act 2

27
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Third quote for Gerald

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After all, y’know , we’re respectable citizens and not dangerous criminals

Act 1

28
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Fourth quote for Gerald

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I’m rather more-upset-by this business than I probably appear to be-

Act 2

29
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Fifth quote for Gerald

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Everything’s all right now Sheila

Act 3

30
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First quote for Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

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She’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course

Act 1

31
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Second quote for Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

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She’d had a lot to say - far too much- so she had to go

Act 1

32
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Third quote for Eva Smith/Daisy Renton

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She didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her-and all that

Act 3