Key Quotes and Themes from 'An Inspector Calls'

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Mr B "Giving us the port Edna? That's right"

WT-FLCAHP

Mr B "working together- for lower costs and higher prices"

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Mr B "I speak as a hard-headed business man...HHPMOB"

ST...SPT...SLWS

Mr B "silly talk...silly pessimistic talk...silly little war scares"

ISTIACOW

Mr B "I say there isn't a chance of war"

U,AU

Mr B "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"

WAPAT...ASOSOTSR

Mr B/Eric "Women are potty about them...a sort of sign of their self respect"

AMHTLAH-AHFT,OC

Mr B "A man has to look after himself- and his family too, of course"

CAATN

Mr B "community and all that nonsense"

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Mr B "I've learnt in the good hard school of experience that a man has to look after himself and his own-and- "

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Mr B "Well, we've several hundred young women there, y'know, and they keep changing"

SICAAR

Mr B "Still, I can't accept any responsibility"

SWALGLG

Mr B "She was a lively, good looking girl"

SHALTS-FTM-SSHTG

Mr B "She had a lot to say-far too much-so she had to go"

WWHANLFCT. AANMYMOIN

Mr B "We were having a nice little family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you've made of it"

TYMATTDR

Mr B "Take your mother along to the drawing room"

TBAPS

Mr B "There'll be a public scandal"

PASOSSOC

Mr B "Probably a socialist or some sort of crank"

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Mr B "Come on Sheila, don't look like that..you'd better ask Gerald for that ring you gave back to him, hadn't you? Then you'll feel better"

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Mr B "Don't stand there being hysterical...look at the pair of them-the famous young generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke"

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Mrs B "You'll have to get used to it, just as I had" [to men being busy at work]

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Mrs B "I think Sheila and I had better go into the drawing room and leave you men-"

GOTC

Mrs B "Girls of that class-"

SHOHTB

Mrs B "She had only herself to blame"

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Mrs B "She was giving herself ridiculous airs. She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position"

YBLAHC

Mrs B "You're behaving like a hysterical child"

IHDNMTMD

Mrs B "I have done nothing more than my duty"

TOT

Mrs B "They're overly tired"

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Sheila "Oh-Gerald-you've got it- is it the one you wanted me to have?"

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Sheila "But these girls aren't cheap labour-they're people"

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Sheila "But she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn't be sorry for her"

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Sheila "You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl"

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Sheila "You were the wonderful fairy prince."

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Sheila "In some odd way, I rather respect you more than I've ever done before"

DHWISH

Sheila "Dropped her when it suited him"

ISWANPN

Sheila "I suppose we're all nice people now"

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Sheila "It frightens me the way you talk...you're pretending everything's just as it was before"

SNRH.STNTBSF,NTL

Sheila "So nothing's really happened. So there's nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn"

N,HGUR-STWHO

Sheila "No, he's giving us rope-so that we'll hang ourselves"

ITMBOTBEAMOTQ...SHAL,EATD

Gerald "I think miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning...she's had a long, exciting and tiring day"

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Gerald "I hate the hard eyed dough faced women. But then I noticed a girl...she looked young and fresh and charming"

TOFCOH

Gerald "That obscene, fat carcass of his"

SBLMTHOOT

Gerald "She'd better let me take her out of there"

IDAFAIR

Gerald "I didn't ask for anything in return"

WRCANC

Gerald "We're respectable citizens and not criminals"

ISIWI. SWYAPAW-AIG. IBAOTMIPIHL-YU?

Gerald "I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warmhearted- and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life- you understand?"

EANS.WATR?

Gerald "Everything's alright now. What about this ring?"

YCDTM

Gerald "You can drink to me"

WITIADS

Eric "well I think it's a damn shame"

IWABS

Eric "I was a bit squiffy"

SNHMTETD

Eric "She'd not had much to eat that day"

Y,II-IS...IWITSWACETN

Eric "Yes, I insisted-it seems...I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty"

SWPAAGS-

Eric "She was pretty and a good sport"

IHTFOTATT

Eric "I hate these fat old tarts around the town"

WAHKH

Eric "We all helped kill her"

IDSMNAIWAGGAKH

Eric "I don't see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself"

ANLPLT,IT,AANMSMOI

Inspector "a nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess someone's made of it"

DSAYAMA,MILMPWYP

Inspector "Don't stammer and yammer again at me again, man. I'm losing my patience with you people"

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Inspector "Just used her...as if she was an animal, a thing, a person"

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Inspector "There are millions and millions of eva smiths and john smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives...we don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other...if men do not learn this lesson they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish"

PAI..BAH

Setting "pink and intimate...brighter and harder"

HC,BNCAH

Setting "Heavily comfortable, but not comfy and homelike"

APM..RPIHS

Setting/mr b "A portentous man...rather provincial in his speech"