english-sheila quotes

Now I really feel engaged.” 

“Mummy isn’t it a beauty?”

‘Sorry! It's just that I can't help thinking about this girl – destroying herself so horribly – and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh, I wish you hadn't told me.’  

“…it was anything but a joke. You knew it then. You began to learn something. And now you’ve stopped. You’re ready to go on in the same old way.”

“(rather wildly, with laugh) No, he’s giving us the rope – so that we’ll hang ourselves.”

“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does.”

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.”

“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody – I feel now I can never go there again.”

“(bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now

“(bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now