An Inspector Calls
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- An Inspector Calls
- Mr Birling
- 'hard-headed business man'
- 'We hardheaded practical business men must say something sometime.
- 'community and all that nonsense.'
- 'I can't except any responsibility.'
- 'Perhaps I ought to warn you'
- 'This makes a difference.'
- 'then she got herself into trouble there, I suppose?'
- 'Lower costs and higher prices'
- Inspector Goole
- (cutting through, massively)
- 'you used the power you had,'
- 'we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt.'
- "What happened to her then maybe have determined what happened to her afterwards"
- "And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?"
- "You''ll be able to divide the responsibility between you when I've gone"
- "Each of you helped to kill her"
- "they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish"
- "there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths"
- Mrs Birling
- 'When you're married you'll realize that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business.'
- 'He's only a boy'
- 'I think Sheila and I had better go to the drawing room and leave you men-'
- 'I did nothing i am ashamed of'
- 'I must say we are learning something tonight'
- 'I used mmyinfluence to have it refused'
- 'Just be quiet so your father can decide what we ought to do'
- 'Eric, I'm completely ashamed of you'
- Sheila
- 'is it the one you wanted me to have?'
- 'But these girls aren't cheap labour- they're people
- 'So I'm really responsible?'
- 'I'll never, never do it again'
- "You talk as if we were responsible"
- "I expect you've done things you're ashamed of too"
- "It didn't seem to be anything very terrible at the time"
- "You don't seem to have learnt anything"
- "It doesn't make any real difference"
- "It's you two who are childish- trying not to face the facts"
- "I suppose we're all nice people now"
- Gerald
- 'Wouldn't you rather I was out of this?'
- 'We're respectable citizens and not criminals.'
- 'don't say anything tothe Inspector.'
- "You couldn't have done anything else"
- "It's bound to be unpleasant and disturbing"
- "You've been through it- and now you want to see someone else put through it"
- "I've suddenly realised [...] that she's dead"
- "Everything's all right now Shiela"
- Eric Birling
- "It's all the same whether it's been told to a police inspector or somebody else"
- "You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all"
- "You killed her [...] and your own grandchild"
- "It isn't if you can't go and work somewhere else"
- "I think I'd better turn in"
- Mr Birling
- Eric Birling
- "It's all the same whether it's been told to a police inspector or somebody else"
- "You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all"
- "You killed her [...] and your own grandchild"
- "It isn't if you can't go and work somewhere else"
- "I think I'd better turn in"
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