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An inspector calls quotes
Mr Birling
“The Titanic ...unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”
"heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties" - stage direction
"as a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he's about"
"The germans don't want war. Nobody wants war"
"I'm taking as a hard headed, practical man of business.
a man has to make his own way – has to look after himself
as if we
were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense.
"But you must understand that a lot of young men-"
"it isn't going to do us much good. The press might easily take it up--"
Sheila
"But these girls aren't cheap labour – they're people."
"but it didn't seem to be anything very terrible at the time"
"And if I could help her now, I would--- "
"in some odd way, I rather respect you more than I've ever done before."
"I feel you're beginning all wrong. And I'm afraid you'll say or do something that you'll be sorry for afterwards."
"why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet."
Gerald
"I'm sorry, Sheila. But it was all over and done with, last summer."
"don't say anything to the inspector."
"Yes. We can keep it from him."
"yes. I suppose it was inevitable."
"I didn't feel about her as she felt about me."
"Nearly any man would have done."
Inspector
"In fact, in a kind of way, you might be said to have been jealous of her."
"She came to you for help, at a time when no woman could have needed it more."
"you not only refused it yourself but saw to it that the others refused it too."
"Don't stammer and yammer at me again, man. I'm losing all patience with you people."
"No, thank you, Mr Birling. I'm on duty."
"I don't play golf."
"We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other."
"he time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and bloody and anguish."
"One Eva Smith has gone – but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us"
Mrs Birling
" didn't like her manner. She'd impertinently made use of our name"
"Unlike the other three, I did nothing I'm ashamed of or that won't bear investigation."
"I consider I did my duty."
"you have no power to make me change my mind."
"Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility."
"scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position."
"Oh – Eric – how could you?"
Eric
"I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row."
"she was pretty and a good sport"
"and I hate these fat old tarts round the town"
"Because you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble – that's why."
"you turned her away – yes, and you killed her"
"-your own grandchild – you killed them both"