An Inspector Calls Key Quotations

'heavy looking, rather portentous man'

Mr Birling

1 of 53

'a heard headed practical man of business'

Mr Birling

2 of 53

'Yes my dear, I know - I'm talking too much'

Mr Birling

3 of 53

'The Germans don't want war'

Mr Birling

4 of 53

'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable'

Mr Birling

5 of 53

'mixed up together like bees in a hive'

Mr Birling

6 of 53

'community and all that nonsense'

Mr Birling

7 of 53

'a man has to mind his own business and look out for himself and his own'

Mr Birlng

8 of 53

'I know the Brumley police officers pretty well'

Mr Birling

9 of 53

'This is Gerald Croft, son of Sir George Croft'

Mr Birling

10 of 53

'the wretched girl's suicide'

Mr Birling

11 of 53

'she'd had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go of course'

Mr Birling

12 of 53

(Eric) 'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble.'

Mr Birling

13 of 53

'I must say Sybil, that when this comes out at the inquest, it isn't going to do us much good.'

Mr Birling

14 of 53

'The whole story is just a lot of moonshine'

Mr Birling

15 of 53

'Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things'

Mrs Birling

16 of 53

(To Sheila) 'when you're married, you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend all their time and energy on their business. You'll have to get used to that, just as I did'

Mrs Birling

17 of 53

(To Inspector Goole) 'You know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago...'

Mrs Birling

18 of 53

'Girls of that class'

Mrs Birling

19 of 53

(On Eric's drinking) 'he's only a boy'

Mrs Birling

20 of 53

(Inspector to Mrs Birling) 'You're a member, of the Brumley Women's Charity Organisation, aren't you?'

Mrs Birling

21 of 53

'We've done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving causes'

Mrs Birling

22 of 53

'I didn't like her manner. She impertinently made use of our name'

Mrs Birling

23 of 53

'I did nothing I'm ashamed of'

Mrs Birling

24 of 53

(Inspector to Mrs Birling) 'She came to you for help at a time when no woman could have needed it more'

Mrs Birliing

25 of 53

'She was claiming elaborate fine feeling and scruples that were simply absurd for a girl of her position'

Mrs Birling

26 of 53

'I blame the young man. He ought to be dealt with very severly'

Mrs Birling

27 of 53

(To Sheila) 'I hope that I can make you as happy as you deserve to be'

Gerald

28 of 53

(Mr Birling to Gerald) ' I have an idea that your mother - Lady Croft ... feels you might have done better for yourself socially.'

Gerald

29 of 53

(Sheila to Gerald) 'Except for last summer when you wouldn't come near me.'

Gerald

30 of 53

'My god!...I've suddenly realised - taken it in properly - that she's dead!'

Gerald

31 of 53

'I didn't install her there so I could make love to her'

Gerald

32 of 53

'I didn't feel about her as she felt about me'

Gerald

33 of 53

'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty'

Eric

34 of 53

(Mrs.B) 'You stole money!'

Eric

35 of 53

'You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble That's why.'

Eric

36 of 53

'You killed her - and the child she'd have had too - my child!'

Eric

37 of 53

'You're beginning to pretend as if nothing's really happened at all. And I can't see it like that. The girl's still dead, isn't she?'

Eric

38 of 53

'we helped to kill her.'

Eric

39 of 53

'except for all last summer when you never came near me'

Sheila

40 of 53

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

Sheila

41 of 53

'I feel rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse.'

Sheila

42 of 53

'She was very pretty and looked like she could take care of herself.'

Sheila

43 of 53

'I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet'

Sheila

44 of 53

'I know I'm to blame and I'm desperately sorry'

Sheila

45 of 53

'he's giving us rope so we'll hang ourselves'

Sheila

46 of 53

'You were the wonderful fairy prince. You must have enjoyed it, Gerald'

Sheila

47 of 53

'It's the way I like to go to work. One person and one line of enquiry at a time. Otherwise, there's a muddle.'

Inspector

48 of 53

'There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence, Miss Birling. In every city and every big town in this country'

Inspector

49 of 53

'...what happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards, and what happened to her afterwards may have driven her to suicide. A chain of events.'

Inspector

50 of 53

(To Mrs.B) 'You've has children. You must have known what she was feeling. And you slammed the door in herr face.'

Inspector

51 of 53

'We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.'

Inspector

52 of 53

'Each of you helped to kill her.'

Inspector

53 of 53

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