english literature paper 2

Mr Birling Quote

“You’ll hear some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say – fiddlesticks!”

“Its one of the happiest nights of my life… your engagement to Shelia means a tremendous lot to me.”

“By the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense.”

“wretched girls suicide”

“There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did.”

mrs birling quotes

“[Mrs Birling] is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.” (stage directions)

“That - I consider - is a trifle impertinent Inspector.”

“Naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case.”

“You’re quite wrong to suppose I shall regret what I did.”
“He ought to be dealt with very severely”

sheila birling quotes

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.”

“I know I’m to blame – and I’m desperately sorry”

“He’s giving us the rope – so that we’ll hang ourselves.”

”The point is you don’t seem to have learnt anything”

eric birling quotes

“The money’s not the important thing. It’s what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters.”

“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out.”

gerald croft quotes

“It was all over and done with, last summer. I hadn’t set eyes on the girl for at least six months. I don’t come into this suicide business.”

“I noticed a girl who looked quite different. She was very pretty.”

“I became at once the most the most important person in her life.”

inspector quotes

“I don’t play golf.”
“Each of you helped to kill her, remember that. Never forget it.”

“There’s a lot of young women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country.”

“One Eva Smith has gone – but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us.”

“If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.”