An Inspector Calls - Key Quotes by Character

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  • An Inspector Calls - Key Quotes by Character
    • Sheila
      • "I suppose we're all nice people now."
      • I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse."
      • "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."
      • "I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet."
      • "He's giving us the rope so we'll hang ourselves."
    • Arthur Birling
      • "I've got to cover this up as soon as I can."
      • "If you don't come down hard on these people they'll soon be asking for the earth!"
      • "A man has to mind his own business and look out for himself and his own."
      • "Community and all that nonsense."
      • "I speak as a hard-headed business man."
      • "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable."
    • Eric
      • "I don't see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself. You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can't."
      • "You haven't made it any easier for me, have you mother?"
      • "I threatened to make a row."
      • "You killed her - and the child she'd have had too - my child"
      • "I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty."
      • (To Mr Birling)"You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble."
    • Gerald Croft
      • "Everything's alright now Sheila. Now, what about this ring?"
      • "Yes I think you were (justified). I know we'd have done the same thing. Don't look at me like that Sheila."
      • "I didn't feel about her as she felt about me."
      • "I happened to look in one night... it's a favourite haunt of women of the town."
      • "We can keep it from him."
    • Inspector Goole
      • "Each of you helped to kill her."
      • "She died in misery and agony."
      • "We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other."
      • "There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence, Miss Birling, in every city and big town in this country."
      • "And I tell you the time will soon come when, if men will not learn their lesson, when they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish."
    • Mrs Birling
      • "Girls of that class."
      • "She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl of her position."
      • "I did nothing I'm ashamed of."
      • "I blame the young man. He ought to be dealt with very severely."
      • "when you’re married, you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all their time and energy on their business. You’ll have to get used to that."

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13I-Read

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I made this in a hurry for quick revision, but if you feel any significant quotes have been missed, comment them below and I will edit the resource. Thanks :)

Oomeg_oh

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Oo this was good thanks for the help!!!!!

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