An Inspector calls- quotes

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'A man has to make his own way- has to look after himself'
Arthur Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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'community and all that nonsense'
Arthur Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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'Still, I can't accept any responsibility.'
Arthur Birling- During the inspectors visit
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'If you don't come down on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth.'
Arthur Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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'You'll have a good laugh over it yet.'
Arthur Birling- After the Inspector leaves
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'Now look at the pair of them- the famous younger generation who knew it all. And they can't even take a joke-'
Arthur Birling- After the Inspector leaves
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'No police inquiry. No one girl that all this happened too. No scandal-'
Arthur Birling- After the Inspector leaves
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'a rather cold woman'
Sybil Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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(reproachfully) 'Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things-'
Sybil Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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'I'm very sorry. But I think she only had herself to blame'
Sybil Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!'
Sybil Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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'They're over-tired. In the morning they'll be as amused as we are.'
Sybil Birling- After the Inspectors leaves
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'She's got a nasty temper sometimes- but she's not bad really. Good old Shiela!'
Shiela Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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(excited) 'Oh- Gerald- you've got it- is it the one you wanted me to have?'
Shiela Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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'But these girls aren't cheap labour- they're people.'
Shiela Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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'And I know I'm to blame- and I'm desperately sorry-'
Shiela Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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'I'll never, never do that again to anybody.'
Shiela Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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(bitterly) 'I suppose we're the nice people now.'
Shiela Birling- After the Inspectors leaves
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'You began to learn something. And now you've stopped. `you're ready to go on in the same old way.'
Shiela Birling- After the Inspectors leaves
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'Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.'
Eric Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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'Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh.'
Eric Birling- Before the Inspectors visit
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'I was in a state when a chap easily turns nasty'
Eric Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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(Unhappily) 'My God- I'm not likely to forget.'
Eric Birling- During the Inspectors visit
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'This girl is dead, isn't she? have they?'
Eric Birling- After the Inspectors leaves
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'Whoever the chap was, the fact remains that I did what I did.'
Eric Birling- After the Inspectors leaves
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'well-bred young man-about-town.'
Gerald Croft- Before the Inspectors visit
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'And I've told you- I was awfully busy at the works all that time.'
Gerald Croft- Before the Inspectors visit
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'I didn't feel about her as she felt about me.'
Gerald Croft- During the Inspectors visit
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'I'm rather more- upset- by this business than I probably appear to be.'
Gerald Croft- During the Inspectors visit
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'Everything's all right now, Sheila. (Holds top the ring) What about this ring?'
Gerald Croft- After the Inspectors leaves
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'But after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it.'
Inspector Goole
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'I'm loosing all patience with you people.'
Inspector Goole
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'But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.'
Inspector Goole
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'We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.'
Inspector Goole
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'And if men learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish.'
Inspector Goole
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Card 2

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Arthur Birling- Before the Inspectors visit

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'community and all that nonsense'

Card 3

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Arthur Birling- During the inspectors visit

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Card 4

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Arthur Birling- During the Inspectors visit

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Card 5

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Arthur Birling- After the Inspector leaves

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