An inspector calls

Act one

• "One person and one line of enquiry. Otherwise there is a muddle."
• "It's my duty to ask questions."
• "A nasty mess somebody's made of ."
• "You used the power you had, as the daughter of a good customer and also a man well-known in the town, to punish the girl just because she made you feel like that?"

Act two

• "We'll have to share our guilt."
• "As soon as i mentioned the name Dasiy Renton, it was obviuos that you'd known her. You gave yourself away at once."
• "And then you decided to keep her - as your mistress?"
• "Your daughter isn't living on the moon. She's here in Brumley too."
• "Apologise for what - doing my job?"
• "I know why she needed help. But as i wasn't there,, i don't know what she asked from your commitee."

Act three

• "But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Don't forget it."

Act one

• "These silly little war scares."
• "A man has to make his own way."
• "If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the world."
• "I was quite justified."

Act two

• "Now Shelia, i am not defending him. But you must understand that alot of young men - "
• "Look, Inspector, you're not trying to tell us that - that my boy - is mixed up in this - ?"

Act three

• "You're the one i blame for this."

Act one

• "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."
• "I'll never, never do it again to anybody."

Act two

• "No, he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang oursleves."
• "And probably between us we killed her."
• "Mother, i think that it was cruel and vile."

Act three

• "The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything."
• "I tell you - whoever the insepctor was, it was anything but a joke."

Act one

• "We're respectable citizens and not criminals."
• "I don't come into this suicide business."
• "Yes. We can keep it from him."

Act two

• "She's obviously had about as much as she can stand."
• "She was young and pretty, and warm hearted - and intensly greatful."
• "I'm rather more - upset - by this business than i probably appear to be."
• "I insisted in a parting gift of enough money."

Act three

• "Everything's all right now Shelia. What about this ring?"

Act one

• "I left 'em talking about clothes again. You'd think a girl never had any clothes before she gets married. Women are potty about 'em."
• "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?"

Act three

• "Could i have a drink first?"
• "Yes. I wasn't in love with her or anything - but i liked her - she was pretty and a good sport"
• "Because you're not the kind of father a chap goes to when he's in trouble - that's why."
• "You don't understand anything. You never did"
• "The girl's dead and we all helped to kill her - and that's what matters - "

Act one

• "When you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business."

Act two

• "We can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class - "
• "It would be much better if Shelia didn't listen to this story at all."
• "A young unmarried girl is being dragged into this."
• "But i think she only had herself to blame."
• "I blame the young man who was the father of the child... if the girl's death is due to anybody, then it's due to him."
• "You're quite wrong to suppose i shall regret what i did."

Act three

• "Didn't i tell you? Didn't i say i couldn't imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?"