An Inspector Calls - Key quotations
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- An Inspector Calls
- Arthur Birling
- Act 2
- I protest against the way in which my daughter, a young unmarried girl, is being dragged into this-
- But you must understand that a lot of young men-
- He was in one of his excitable queer moods
- Damned impudence!
- The Press might easily take it up
- Act 1
- Heavy-looking, rather portentous man ... with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech
- You ought to like this port, Gerald. As a matter of fact Finchley told me it's exactly the same port your father gets from him
- Perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Billings ... are working together - for lower costs and higher prices
- By the way some of these cranks talk ... you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else
- A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-
- We hear the sharp ring of a front door bell
- A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-
- If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth
- I was quite justified
- Act 3
- (sharply) Sheila, take your mother along to the drawing-room
- (unhappily) I'd give thousands - yes, thousands
- I've got to cover this up as soon as I can
- There'll be a public scandal
- There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did -it turned out unfortunately,thats all
- If he wasn't, it matters a devil of a lot. Makes all the difference
- The whole story's just a load of moonshine. Nothing but an elaborate sell! (he produces a huge sigh of relief)
- He was prejudiced from the start
- Act 2
- Eric Birling
- Sybil Birling
- Act 2
- Girls of that class -
- You know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he's still a magistrate-
- We've done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases
- I wasn't satisfied by the girl's claim - she seemed to me to be not a good case
- I consider I did my duty
- [who is to blame then?] Firstly, the girl herself
- I consider I did my duty
- I wasn't satisfied by the girl's claim - she seemed to me to be not a good case
- I think you [Sheila] ought to go to bed - and forget about this absurd business
- I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence ... naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case
- Act 1
- Men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business
- I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing room and leave you men
- All right, Edna. I'll ring from the drawing-room when we want coffee
- A rather cold woman and her husband's social superior
- Act 3
- But i didn't know it was you [Eric} - I never dreamt. Besides, you're not the type - you don't get drunk-
- (smiling) And I must say, Gerald, you've argued this very cleverly, and I'm most grateful.
- (triumphantly) Didn't I tell you? Didn't I say I couldn't imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?
- They're over-tired. In the morning they'll be as amused as we are
- I told him quite plainly that i thought I had done no more than my duty
- Act 2
- Sheila Birling
- Gerald Croft
- Inspector Goole
- Arthur Birling
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