An Inspector Calls Quotes
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- An Inspector Calls
- Mr Birling
- Act One
- [She looks attentive, as they all do]
- 'The Germans don't want war, nobody wants war'
- 'It has nothing to do with the wretched girl's suicide'
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act One
- Mrs Birling
- Act One
- 'Men with important work to do sometimes need to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business'
- Act Two
- 'As iif a girl of that sort would ever refuse any money'
- 'Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility'
- ''It wasn't I who turned her out of employment - which probably began it all'
- Act Three
- 'Besides, you're not that type - you don't get drunk'
- 'He certainly didn't make me confess -'
- 'Take your mother along to the drawing room -' -Mr Birling
- Act One
- Sheila
- Act One
- 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people'
- 'Why the devil do you want to go upsetting the child like that?' -Mr Birling
- ''It's the only time I'll ever do anything like that, and I'll never, never do it again to anybody'
- Act Two
- 'We've no excuse for putting on airs'
- Act Three
- 'The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything'
- 'Then don't begin. Nobody wants you to' -Mr Birling
- Act One
- Gerald
- Act One
- 'Hear, hear! And I think my father would agree to that'
- '[showing annoyance]Any particular reason why I shouldn't see this girl's photograph, Inspector?'
- Act Two
- 'Sorry - I - well, I've suddenly reason - taken it in properly - that she's dead'
- I didn't ask for anything in return'
- Act Three
- 'There isn't any such inspector. We've been had!'
- Act One
- Eric
- Act One
- 'Don't be an ***, Eric' -Sheila
- 'As you were saying, Dad, a man has to look after himself'
- 'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?'
- Act Three
- 'You haven't made it any easier for me, have you, Mother?'
- [shows his familiarity with quick heavy drinking]
- 'In a way, she treated me - as if I were a kid'
- 'But it doesn't alter the fact that we all helped to kill her'
- Act One
- Inspector
- Act One
- [The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inpector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder]
- 'A chain of events'
- 'It's better to ask for the earth than to take it'
- Act Two
- 'We'll have to share our guilt'
- ''I think it is a trifle impertinent, Inspector' -Mrs Birling
- Act Three
- 'I know - he's your son and this is your house - but look at him'
- [as Birling looks like interrupting explosively]
- Act One
- Mr Birling
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