An Inspector Calls Key Quotations

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  • Created on: 06-04-18 16:40

Act One

"The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder"

"But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense"

"...he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness"

"But these girls aren't cheap labour they're people"

"We were having a nice little family celebration tonight and a nasty mess you've made of it now haven't you?"

"Why you fool, he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't yet. You'll see. You'll see"

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Act Two

"And I know I'm to blame and I'm desperately sorry but I can't believe, I simply won't believe it's simply my fault that in the end she committed suicide"

"You see, we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt"

"absurd business" "girls of that class"

"No, he's giving us rope so that we'll hang ourselves"

"You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here. We'd have to start all over again, getting to know each other"

"I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence, quite deliberate, and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case"

"But I think she only had herself to blame"

"Then the next time you imagine it, just remember this girl was going to have a child"

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Act Three

"You don't understand anything. You never did. You never even tried"

"We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men do not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night"

"You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all. And I can't see it like that"

"But is it a fact"

"Well, he inspected us all right. And don't let's start dodging and pretending now. Between us, we drove that girl to commit suicide"

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