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An Inspector Calls Key Quotes 1 . (Act 3 Quotations (Mr Birling (to Eric):…
An Inspector Calls Key Quotes 1
.
Act 1 Quotations
Gerald
: [
laughs
] You seem to be a nice well-behaved family'
Inspector:
'I'd like some information, if you don't mined'
Arthur Birling
: 'It's one of the happiest nights of my life'
Sheila
: '[miserably] So I'm really responsible?'
Sheila
: 'What do you mean by saying that? You talk as if we were responsible-'
Gerald
: 'So - for God's sake - don't say anything to the Inspector'
Act 2 Quotations
Gerald
: 'All she wanted was to talk - a little friendliness'
Mrs Birling
: 'I'm very sorry. But I think she only had herself to blame'
Mrs Birling
: 'Girls of that class'
Mrs Birling
: 'As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!'
Inspector
: 'we'll have to share our guilt'
Sheila
: '[
with sudden alarm
] Mother - stop! -stop!'
Act 3 Quotations
Mr Birling (to Eric)
: '[
ferrous, intervening
] Why you hysterical young fool - get back - or i'll -'
Sheila
: 'You began to learn something. And now you've stopped'
Inspector
: 'We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other'
Sheila
: 'Everything we said had happened really had happened'
Eric
: 'You're not the kind of farther a chap could go to when he's in trouble'
Arthur:
'[
heartily
] Nonsense! You'll have a good laugh over it yet'
Mr Birling
(
to Sheila
): '[very sharply] You herd what I said'
Narrative Structure
Arthur
: '[
Thunderstruck
] My God! But - look here -' (Act 2)
'[
As they stare guiltily and dumbfounded, the curtain falls
]' (Act 3)
Sheila
: 'And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet. You'll see. You'll see' (Act 1)
Arthur Birling
'You've a lot to learn yet. And I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business' (Act 1)
'And we don't guess - we've had experience - and we know' (Act 1)
'working together - for lower costs and higher prices' (Act 1)
Sheila Birling
'No, he's giving us rope - so that we'll hang ourselves' (Act 2)
'Mother - I begged you and begged you to stop' (Act 2)
'I'll never, never do it again to anybody' (Act 1)
Sybil Birling
'I think she only had herself to blame' (Act 2)
'Besides, you're not that type - you don't get drunk -' (Act 3)
'Girls of that class -' (Act 2)
Inspector Goole
'Yes, but you can't. It's too late. She's dead' (Act 1)
'their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness' (Act 3)
'Apologize for what - doing my duty?' (Act 2)