quotes and names Flashcards
Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
Mr Birling
“you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were
all mixed up like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense.”
Mr Birling
‘I’m very sorry. But I think she only had herself to blame’
Mrs Birling
“About fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior”
Mrs Birling
“girls of that class”
Mrs Birling
“I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept
no blame at all”
Mrs Birling
“Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.”
Mrs Birling
‘I’m very sorry. But I think she only had herself to blame’
Mrs Birling
“Yes, go on, Mummy”
Sheila
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.”
Sheila
“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go
there again”
Sheila
“It frightens me the way you talk”
Sheila
“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”
Sheila
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty
and a good sport-”
Eric
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble that’s why.”
Eric
“He was our police inspector all right”
Eric
“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and
that’s what matters-”
Eric
“An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but
very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town”
Gerald
“But how do you know it’s the same girl? … We’ve no proof it was the
same photograph and therefore no proof it was the same girl”
Gerald
“it’s better to ask for the Earth than to take it”
Inspector
“A girl died tonight. A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody
any harm. But she died in misery and agony- hating life-”
Inspector
“Everything’s all right now Sheila. What about this ring?”
Gerald
fire and blood and anguish
Inspector
“I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business”
Mr Birling
As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
Mrs Birling
I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty
Eric
community and all that nonsense
Mr Birling
