English Literature - Inspector Calls Quotes

Give me 8 quotes used by Inspector Goole

“Public men, Mr Birling have responsibilities as well as privileges”

“Their lives … and chance of happiness all with intertwined with our lives.”

“Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.

“We are members of one body”

“You used the power you had … to punish the girl”

“Each of you helped to kill her, remember that. Never forget it.”

“Impression of massiveness.”

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

8 Mr Birling Quotes

“We may look forward … when Crofts and Birlings … are working for lower costs and higher prices.”

“As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.”

“A man has to mind his own business and look after himself”

“the famous younger generation who know it all. And can’t even take a joke”

“I can’t accept any responsibility.”

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

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

“I don’t like your tone nor the way you’re handling this enquiry”

8 Mrs Birling quotes

“She only had herself to blame”

“ I did nothing I’m ashamed of”

“First I blame this girl herself. Secondly, I blame the young man”

“The rude way he spoke … it was quite extraordinary!”

“We’ve done a great deal useful work helping deserving cases”

“Her husband’s social superior”

“Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things.”

“You’ll have to get used to that, just as I had “

8 Sheila quotes

“Oh - how horrible”

“I felt rotten about it at the time”

“If I could help her now I would … I’ll never, never do it again to anybody.”

“I suppose we’re all nice people now”

“It’s you two who are childish - trying not to face the facts”

“very pleased with life and rather excited”

“You don’t seem to have learnt anything”

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

8 Eric quotes

“you killed her - and the child … your own grandchild”

“You don’t understand anything. You never did. You never even tried”

“I insisted - it seems”

“in that state when a chap turns nasty”

“My God!”

“Well, don’t do any. We’ll have a drink to their health and have done with it.”

“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”

“you said yourself she was a good worker”

8 Gerald quotes

“Sorry - I well, I’ve suddenly realised - taken it in properly - that she’s dead”

“You couldn’t have done anything else”

“well-bred young man-about-town”

“I insisted … I made her take some money”

“A pretty girl on her early twenties”

“Young and fresh and charming and altogether out of place down there”

“It wasn’t disgusting”

“Knew it couldn’t last”