AIC-Character quotes

Mr Birling

• A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own ( interrupted by the inspector at the door)

• All mixed up together like bees in a hive

• I care.I was almost certain for a knighthood

Sheila

• These girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people

• You musnt try to build up a sort of wall between us and that girl

• Why you fool , he knows , of course he knows

Gerald

• After all yknow , we’re respectable citizens and not dangerous criminals

• She was young , pretty , warm hearted and intensely grateful

• She's obviously had about as much as she can stand

• Everything is all right now Shelia

The Inspector

• We are all members of one body

• Millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths

• I didn’t do its she’s upsetting herself

• As if she was an animal , a thing , not a person

Mrs Birling

• As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse any money

• No of course not , he’s only a boy

• I used my influence to have it refused

Eric

• Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages . We try for the highest possible prices

• I don't know really , suddenly I felt i just had to laugh

• You killed her and the child she’d have too, my child