'An Inspector Calls' - Key quotes - ACT 1

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"Working together - for lower costs and higher prices."
Mr. Birling - ACT 1
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"We're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity."
Mr. Birling - ACT 1
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"I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business."
Mr. Birling - ACT 1
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"As long as we behave ourselves, don't get into the police court or start a scandal."
Mr. Birling - ACT 1
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"A man has to make his own way."
Mr. Birling - ACT 1
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"Yes, yes. Horrid business."
Mr. Birling - ACT 1
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"It's my duty to keep labour costs down."
Mr. Birling - ACT 1
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"Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things-"
Mrs. Birling - ACT 1
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"Sounds a bit fishy to me."
Gerald - ACT 1
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"You know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals."
Gerald - ACT 1
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"I don't come into this suicide business."
Gerald - ACT 1
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"- is it the one you wanted me to have?"
Sheila - ACT 1
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"Mummy", "Daddy"
Sheila - ACT 1
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"I'll never let it go out of my sight for an instant."
Sheila - ACT 1
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"Oh I wish you hadn't told me."
Sheila - ACT 1
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"Pretty?"
Sheila - ACT 1
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"These girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."
Sheila - ACT 1
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// Gives a half stifled sob, then runs out //
Sheila - ACT 1
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"You fool - he knows. Of course he knows."
Sheila - ACT 1
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"What about war?"
Eric - ACT 1
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"My God!"
Eric - ACT 1
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"He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out."
Eric - ACT 1
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// He creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness //
Inspector - ACT 1
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"The girl's dead though."
Inspector - ACT 1
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"No relatives to help her, lonely, half-starved."
Inspector - ACT 1
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"We're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity."

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Mr. Birling - ACT 1

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"I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business."

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Card 4

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"As long as we behave ourselves, don't get into the police court or start a scandal."

Back

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Card 5

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"A man has to make his own way."

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suedei

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Really useful quiz to help students understand the characters.

lotti-xoxo

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the answers are wrong :( !!! failed my gcse because of this!!!!!

Mxtt_

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The answers are wrong...

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