Quotes + Analysis Flashcards
First quote for Mr Birling
All mixed up like bees in a hive
Act 1
Second quote for Mr Birling
Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
Act 1
Third quote for Mr Birling
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
Fourth quote for Mr Birling
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
Fifth quote for Mr Birling
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.]
First quote for Mrs Birling
As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse any money
Act 2
Second quote for Mrs Birling
You know, of course, that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate
Act 2
Third quote for Mrs Birling
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position
Act 2
Fourth quote for Mrs Birling
No, of course not. He’s only a boy
Act 2
Fifth quote for Mrs Birling
I used my influence to have it refused
Act 2
First quote for Sheila
[Slowly, carefully now] You musn’t try to build up a sort of wall between us and that girl
Act 2
Second quote for Sheila
I tell - whoever that Inspector was, it was anything but a joke
Act 3
Third quote for Sheila
[laughs rather hysterically] Why-you fool- he knows. Of course, he knows.
Act 1
Fourth quote for Sheila
But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people
Act 1
Fifth quote for Sheila
Now I feel really engaged
Act 1
First quote for Eric
Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices
Act 1
Second quote for Eric
I don’t - really. Suddenly felt I just had to laugh
Act 1
Third quote for Eric
You killed her-and the child she’d have had too-my child!
Act 3
Fourth quote for Eric
I was in the state when a chap easily turns nasty
Act 3
Fifth quote for Eric
[shouting ] And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her-and that’s what matters-
Act 3
First quote for Inspector Goole
I didn’t do it. She’s upsetting herself
Act 1
Second quote for Inspector Goole
Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smith and John Smiths still left with us
Third quote for Inspector Goole
We are members of one body-we are responsible for each other
Act 3
Fourth quote for Inspector Goole
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
Fifth quote for Inspector Goole
Need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness.
First quote for Gerald
I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted and intensely grateful
Act 2
Second quote for Gerald
She’s had a long, exciting and tiring day…and now she’s obvious had about as much as she can stand
Act 2
Third quote for Gerald
After all, y’know , we’re respectable citizens and not dangerous criminals
Act 1
Fourth quote for Gerald
I’m rather more-upset-by this business than I probably appear to be-
Act 2
Fifth quote for Gerald
Everything’s all right now Sheila
Act 3
First quote for Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
She’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out, of course
Act 1
Second quote for Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
She’d had a lot to say - far too much- so she had to go
Act 1
Third quote for Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
She didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her-and all that
Act 3
