An Inspector Calls Quotes

Mr Birling

  1. The Titanic, unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

  2. A time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing, but working together for lower costs and higher prices

  3. Im talking as a hard headed practical man of business

  4. This makes a difference you know, in fact it makes all the difference

  5. I cant accept any responsibility

  6. You’d think that we all had to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive

  7. I was almost certain for a knighthood

  8. I’ll give thousands, yes thousands

Mrs Birling

  1. As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

  2. Girls of that class

  3. I did nothing I am ashamed of

  4. Youll realise that men with important work to do sometimes spend nearly all their time and energy on their busniess, Youll have to get used to that just as I did

  5. Go and look for the father of the child, its his responsibility

  6. I blame the young man who was the father of the child. He should be made an example of

  7. Arthur youre not supposed to say such things

  8. To Sheila, youre behaving like a hysterical child tonight

  9. Didnt I tell you? I said that I didnt believe a real police inspector would talk to us like that

  10. I was the onlt one who didnt give into him