An Inspector Calls

good quotes to remember

_______ and _________ comfortable

substantial and heavily comfortable

not _____ and homelike

not cosy and homelike

The lighting is said to be ‘_________ and ________” before the inspector arrives

Pink and intimate

The lighting is said to be ‘________ and _________’ after the Inspector arrives

brighter and harder

When the Birlings are partying they have ‘___________ of ______, _______ _____ and ____________

decanter of port, cigar boxes and cigarettes

Birling is a ‘_______ – _______ rather ________ man’

heavy – looking, rather portentous man’

Birling is ‘_______ ______ in his ________’

rather provincial in his speech

Sheila is ‘____ _______ with _______ and ________ __________’

very pleased with life and rather excited

Eric is ‘ ________ ________, ________ _________’

half shy, half assertive

Sheila – ‘you’re ________’

you’re squiffy

Birling – ‘_____ costs ______ ______ _______’

lower costs and higher prices

Sheila – ‘Look ________ – isn’t ______ ___ ________?’

Look Mummy – isn’t it a beauty?’

‘_____ headed __________man’

hard-headed businessman

Birling – ‘_________ absolutely _________’

unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Birling – ‘_________ mixed up together like ________ in a _________’

all mixed up together like bees in a hive

Inspector has an impression of ‘_______, _______ and __________’

massiveness, solidity, and purposefulness

Inspector – ‘One _______ and one ______ __ ________ at a ________’

one person and one line of enquiry at a time

Birling – ‘____ yes, _______ _________’

yes yes, horrid business

Inspector – ‘A _______ of ________’

a chain of events

Birling – ‘it’s my duty to keep ________ _____ _______’

it’s my duty to keep labour costs down

Sheila – ‘but these ____ aren’t ____ _______, they’re _________’

but these girls, aren’t cheap labour, they’re people

Inspector – ‘______ _____ back _________’

dinghy little back bedrooms

Sheila – ‘So I’m _____ _______?’

So I’m really responsible?

Sheila – ‘It ______ my ______ ______’

it was my own fault

Sheila – ‘she was _____ _____ and looked as if ___ ____ ______ _______ ______ ________’

She was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself

Sheila – ‘And if I _____ ____ ____ ___, ___ _____’

and if I could help her now I would’

Inspector – ‘we’ll _____ ______ share ________ _______’

we’ll have to share our guilt

Inspector – ‘We _____ ____ on the ______ ______, they’re more ___________’

we often do on the young ones, they’re more impressionable

Mrs Birling – ‘Please _____ ______ ____ like that’

please don’t contradict me like that

Gerald – ‘I hate those _____ – _____ ______– ______ ______’

I hate those hard – eyed dough – faced women

Inspector – ‘______ men, Mr Birling, have _______ as _____ _____ __________’

public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges

Sheila – ‘you ______ ________ a kind of __________ between _______ and _________ _______’

you mustn’t build a kind of wall between us and that girl

Mrs Birling – ‘I’m very _____ but I _____ _____ _______ _____ _________ ___ _____’

I’m very sorry, but I think she had only herself to blame.

Mrs Birling – ‘I’ll ___ _____ what I _____ ___. Go ______ _____ ___ ___ ___ ___ _____ ____. It’s ____ __________’

I’ll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child. It’s her responsibility

Inspector – ‘She was here ________, ________, ______ ______, _______’

She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate.

Sheila – (____ _____) ‘Mother __ ______ it _____ _____ and _______

(with feeling) Mother think it was cruel and vile

Mrs Birling – ‘As ___ __ _____ __ ___ ____ would ______ _____ money’

As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

Birling – ‘Neither ___ ____, if _____ had ______ ____ ____ _____’

Neither do I, if you’d had any sense of loyalty

Eric '– ‘I _______ these _____ old ________ around the town’

I hate these fat old tarts around the town

Birling – ‘You must give me a list of those accounts. ____ got _____ ____ ___ up as ________ as I can’

You must give me a list of those accounts. I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can.

Inspector – ‘________ and ________ and ________’

millions and millions and millions

Inspector – ‘______ Smiths and _______ Smiths’

John Smiths and Eva Smiths

Sheila – ‘But now you’re ________ _____ ____ ____ _____ ____ ___ ____ ____ ___ ____’

But now you’re beginning all over again to pretend that nothing much has happened

Eric –– ‘He was ______ _____ _________ all right ‘

He was our police inspector all right

Birling – ‘By _____, a ____!

By Jingo, a fake!

Eric – ‘I ____ what I ______. And _____ did what she ________. And the ____ of ______ did what_____ _____ _____ _____’

I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her.