An Inspector Calls

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"I've got to go and cover this up as soon as i can"
Mr Birling
1 of 49
"I can't accept any responsibility"
Mr Birling
2 of 49
"If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody... It would be very awkward wouldn't it?"
Mr Birling
3 of 49
It wasn't I who turned her out of employment- Which probably began it all"
Mrs Birling
4 of 49
"I accept no blame for it all"
Mrs Birling
5 of 49
"Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility"
Mrs Birling
6 of 49
"I consider I did my duty"
Mrs Birling
7 of 49
"I know I'm to blame - and i'm desperately sorry"
Sheila
8 of 49
"I'll never, never do it again to anybody"
Sheila
9 of 49
"I'm never likely to forget"
Eric
10 of 49
"He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out"
Eric
11 of 49
"Look Inspector I'd give thousands"
Mr Birling
12 of 49
"I think she had only have herself to blame"
Mrs Birling
13 of 49
"Between us we killed her"
Sheila
14 of 49
"I behaved badly too. I know I did i'm ashamed of it"
Sheila
15 of 49
"I'm rather more - upset - by this business than I probably appear to be -"
Gerald
16 of 49
"Then you killed her and the child she'd have had too - my child, your own grandchild..."
Eric
17 of 49
"We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable"
Inspector
18 of 49
"the wretched girls suicide"
Mr Birling
19 of 49
"It's one of the happiest nights of my life. Your engagement Sheila means a tremendous lot to me"
Mr Birling
20 of 49
"He should be made an example of. If the girls death is due to anybody it's due to him. He ought to be dealt with very severely"
Mrs Birling
21 of 49
"But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people"
Sheila
22 of 49
"I wasn't in love with her or anything, but I liked her, she was pretty and a good sport"
Eric
23 of 49
"She didn't want to marry me, said I didn't love her"
Eric
24 of 49
"You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble"
Eric
25 of 49
"There's a fair chance that I may find myself into the next honours list"
Mr Birling
26 of 49
"Perhaps I ought to warn you that the cheif constable is an old friend of mine"
Mr Birling
27 of 49
"Hard-headed practical man of business"
Mr Birling
28 of 49
"I didn't like her manner. She impertinently made use of our name"
Mrs Birling
29 of 49
"She was claiming elaborate fine feeling and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position"
Mrs Birling
30 of 49
"So you used the power you had to punish the girl because she made you feel like that"
Sheila
31 of 49
"Oh Gerald, you've got it. Is it the one you wanted me to have"
Sheila
32 of 49
"Son of sir George Croft, Crofts Limited"
Gerald
33 of 49
"Absolutely first class"
Gerald
34 of 49
"she was pretty and a good sport"
Eric
35 of 49
"I insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going"
Eric
36 of 49
"she refused to take the money"
Eric
37 of 49
"You know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago..."
Mrs Birling
38 of 49
"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
39 of 49
"Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
Mr Birling
40 of 49
"a man has to mind his own business and look out for himself and his own"
Mr Birling
41 of 49
"And I say the girl's dead and we all killed her and that's what matters"
Eric
42 of 49
"Your own grandchild - you killed them both - damn you, damn you"
Eric
43 of 49
"It's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters"
Eric
44 of 49
"I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her"
Eric
45 of 49
"You see, we have to shar something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt"
Inspector
46 of 49
"he's giving us rope so that we'll hang ourselves"
Sheila
47 of 49
"I'm waiting... To do my duty"
Inspector
48 of 49
"Perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birling are no longer competing but are working together"
Mr Birling
49 of 49

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Mr Birling

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Mr Birling

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Mrs Birling

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Mrs Birling

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that was stupid I didn't understand it

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