INSPECTOR CALLS

INSPECTOR CALLS QUOTATIONS

INSPECTOR GOOLE

-“but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us …

-We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. …

-They will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.”

-“As if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.”

- Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges

- It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it

MR BIRLING

- Unsinkable..absolutely unsinkable

- A hard headed, practical man of business

- 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 and his own.

- the wretched girl's suicide.

-  If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn't it?

SHEILA

- …and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn't told me

-  So I’m really responsible?

- But these girls aren't cheap labour – they're people.

- you mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.

- The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything

-  I suppose we're all nice people now.

- “I know I’m to blame- and I’m desperately sorry...I won’t believe-it’s simply my fault

- It didn’t seem too be anything very terrible at the time

ERIC

- Because you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble

- Then – you killed her. …– you killed them both – damn you, damn you-

-  I'm ashamed of you as well – yes both of you.

- It's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters.

- …and then one of those cranks walked in – the Inspector

- I couldn’t remember her name or where she lived

- ‘why shouldn’t they try  for higher wages.’

GERALD

-  I don't come into this suicide business

- we can keep it from him

-  Everything’s all right now Sheila. (Holds up the ring.) What about this ring?

- You were the wonderful fairy prince. You must have adored it, Gerald - All right, I did for a time

MRS BIRLING

- Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things

- Girls of that class

-’He’s only a boy’

- …simply a piece of gross impertinence – quite deliberate – and naturally …prejudiced me against her case.

- As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!

- Eric, I'm absolutely ashamed of you.

- They're over-tired