Inspector Calls - Key Quotes
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- Created on: 09-06-20 13:41
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- An Inspector Calls
- Arthur Birling
- 'a man has to make his own way'
- 'I speak as a hard headed business man'
- heavy-looking, 'Rather portentous man'
- 'I say there isn't a chance of war'
- ''I've got to cover this up as soon as I can''
- 'Who will suffer from this more than I will?'
- ''You're the one I blame for this''
- Sybil Birling
- 'I did nothing I’m ashamed of'
- 'Girls of that class-'
- 'She only had herself to blame'
- 'I'm absolutely ashamed of you'
- 'perfectly justified'
- 'deserving cases'
- Sheila Birling
- 'But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people'
- '(little cry, gives a half stifled sob, and then runs out)'
- 'It was my own fault'
- 'It's simply my fault that in the end she - she committed suicide'
- 'The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything'
- 'It frightens me the way you talk'
- '(bitterly) I suppose we're all nice people now'
- Gerald Croft
- '(well bred young man-about-town)'
- 'nothing less than a cry for help'
- 'I was sorry for her'
- "I'd like to be alone for a while..."
- "I didn't ask for anything in return."
- "I became at once the most important person in her life."
- Eva Smith
- 'Two hours ago a young woman died in the infirmary' (Inspector Goole)
- 'Wretched girl's suicide' (Mr Birling)
- 'She didn't blame me at all' (Gerald)
- 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money' (Mrs. Birling)
- 'burnt her insides out'
- Never hear her perspective/ never speaks
- 'She only had herself to blame' (Mrs Birling)
- 'jealous of her' (Inspector Goole to Sheila)
- Inspector Goole
- '(he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness)'
- 'It's better to ask for the earth than to take it'
- 'I don't play golf'
- 'You used the power you had...to punish the girl'
- '(cutting in, with authority)'
- 'Your daughter isn't living on the moon.
- 'But each of you helped to kill her'
- 'There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us'
- 'We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other'
- 'fire and blood and anguish'
- Eric Birling
- 'half shy, half assertive'
- 'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?'
- 'I'd have let her stay'
- '(familiarity with heavy drinking)'
- 'You killed her'
- 'He was our police inspector alright'
- 'You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all'
- 'We all helped to kill her'
- 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble'
- Arthur Birling
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