AIC Key Quotes Memory

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Character: Eric (Stage Direction)

Act: 1

“Not quite at _____, half shy, half assertive.”

ease

Character: Eric

Act: 1

“Why shouldn’t they try for higher _____? We try for the highest possible prices.”

wages

Character: Eric

Act: 2

“You’re not the kind of _____ a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.”

father

Character: Eric

Act: 3

“Well I was in that _____ when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row.”

state

Character: Eric

Act: 3

“I wasn’t in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and a good _____ .”

sport

Character: Eric

Act: 3

“You _____ them both – damn you, damn you!”

killed

Character: Eric

Act: 3

“The _____’s not the important thing. It’s what we did to the girl and what we did to each other that matters.”

money

Character: Gerald

Act: 1

“We’re _____ citizens and not criminals.”

respectable

Character: Gerald

Act: 1

“If _____ , yes.”

possible

Character: Gerald

Act: 2

“She was young and pretty and _____ -hearted.”

warm

Character: Sheila (about Gerald)

Act: 2

“Wonderful _____ prince.”

fairy

Character: Gerald

Act: 2

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

important

Character: Gerald

Act: 3

“That man wasn’t a police _____ . Astounded.”

officer

Character: Gerald

Act: 3

“What about this _____ ?”

ring

Character: Sheila

Act: 1

“Look _____ – isn’t it a beauty?”

mummy

Character: Sheila

Act: 1

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

labour

Character: Sheila (Stage Direction)

Act: 1 “-and-and- (she almost _____ down but just controls herself)”

breaks

Character: Sheila

Act: 2

“Why – you _____ – he knows. Of course he knows.”

fool

Character: Sheila

Act: 2

“Selfish, _____ creature.”

vindictive

Character: Sheila

Act: 2

“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of _____ between us and that girl.”

wall

Character: Sheila

Act: 2

“If you do, then the Inspector will just _____ it down.”

break

Character: Sheila

Act: 3

“Stop these silly _____.”

pretences

Character: Sheila

Act: 3

“No, he’s giving us the _____– so that we’ll hang ourselves.”

rope

Character: Sheila

Act: 3

“The _____ of it.”

hero

Character: Sheila

Act: 3

“You and I aren’t the _____ people who sat down to dinner here.”

same

Character: Sheila

Act: 3

“Beginning all over again to _____ that nothing much has happened.”

pretend

Character: Sheila

Act: 3

“You two are being _____ .”

childish

Character: Sheila

Act: 3

“But we’re all in it – up to the _____ .”

neck

Character: Sheila (quoting the Inspector)

Act: 3

“Fire and _____ and anguish.”

blood

Character: Mrs Birling (Stage Direction)

Act: 1

“Mrs Birling enters briskly and _____ -confidently.”

self

Character: Mrs Birling

Act: 1

“Be _____ with it.”

careful

Character: Mrs Birling (Stage Direction)

Act: 2

“Rather _____ .”

grandly

Character: Mrs Birling

Act: 2

“Girls of that _____—”

class

Character: Mrs Birling (about Eric)

Act: 2

“No, of course not. He’s only a _____ .”

boy

Character: Mrs Birling

Act: 2

“Gross _____ —quite deliberate—”

impertinence

Character: Mrs Birling

Act: 2

“I used my _____ to have it refused… I did my duty.”

influence

Character: Mrs Birling

Act: 2

“He should be made an _____ of.”

example

Character: Mrs Birling

Act: 3

“(Triumphantly) Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I say I couldn’t _____ a real police inspector talking like that to us?”

imagine

Character: Mrs Birling

Act: 3

“They’re overtired. In the morning they’ll be as _____ as we are.”

amused

Character: Mr Birling (Stage Direction)

Act: 1

“A _____ manufacturer.”

prosperous

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 1

“Hard-headed _____ man of business.”

practical

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 1

“When Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower _____ and higher prices.”

costs

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 1

“Unsinkable, _____ unsinkable.”

absolutely

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 1

“Like _____ in a hive – community and all that nonsense.”

bees

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 2

“Wretched girls’ _____ .”

suicide

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 2

“It’s my duty to keep _____ costs down.”

labour

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 2

“I only did what any _____ might have done.”

employer

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 3

“It _____ a devil of a lot.”

matters

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 3

“Probably a _____ or some sort of crank.”

socialist

Character: Mr Birling (Stage Direction)

Act: 3

“ _____.”

Triumphantly

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 3

“The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a _____ .”

joke

Character: Mr Birling

Act: 3

“Look, Inspector, I’d give _____ , thousands—”

thousands

Character: Inspector Goole (Stage Direction)

Act: 1

“An impression of _____ , solidity and purpose.”

massiveness

Character: Inspector Goole (Stage Direction)

Act: 1

“ _____ through massively.”

Cutting

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 1

“It’s better to _____ for the earth than to take it.”

ask

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 1

“I don’t play _____ .”

golf

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 1

“She wasn’t _____ when I saw her today.”

pretty

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 2

“There are a lot of young women living that sort of _____ in every city.”

existence

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 2

“But she died in _____ and agony – hating life.”

misery

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 2

“Public men, Mr Birling, have _____ as well as privileges.”

responsibilities

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

“Alone, friendless, almost _____ , desperate.”

penniless

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

“She lies with a _____ -out inside on a slab.”

burnt

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

“Don’t _____ and yammer at me again, man.”

stammer

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

“Each of you _____ to kill her. Remember that.”

helped

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

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

millions

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

“We don’t live alone. We are _____ of one body.”

members

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

“We are _____ for each other.”

responsible

Character: Inspector Goole

Act: 3

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

fire

Character: Eric

Act: 3
“Just used her … , as if she was an ______ , a thing, not a person”

animal