Inspector call quotes

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"Heavily comfortable, but not cosy or homelike."
Act one
1 of 16
"Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
Arthur Birling, act one
2 of 16
"A man has to look after his own business...look after himself and his own."
Arthur Birling, act one
3 of 16
"It doesn't seem very important."
Arthur Birling, act one
4 of 16
"But these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people."
Sheila Birling, act one
5 of 16
"The way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else."
Arthur Birling, act one
6 of 16
"If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the Earth."
Arthur Birling, act one
7 of 16
"But she looked very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn't be sorry for her."
Sheila Birling, act one
8 of 16
"I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why that girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-."
Sybil Birling, act two
9 of 16
"I hate those hard eyed, dough-faced women. But then I noticed a girl who looked quite different. She was very pretty."
Gerald Croft, act two
10 of 16
"Yes, I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case."
Sybil Birling, act two
11 of 16
"He should be made an example of, if the girl's death is due to anyone, it's due to him."
Sybil Birling, act two
12 of 16
"There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths still left with us intertwined with what we think and say and do."
The inspector, act three
13 of 16
"Probably a socialist or some sort of crank."
Arthur Birling, act three
14 of 16
"There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did."
Arthur Birling, act three
15 of 16
"There's no proof it was really the same girl."
Gerald Croft, act three
16 of 16

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Card 2

Front

"Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"

Back

Arthur Birling, act one

Card 3

Front

"A man has to look after his own business...look after himself and his own."

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

"It doesn't seem very important."

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

"But these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people."

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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