inspector calls key quotes

‘A man has to mind his own business and look after his own and-’
[We hear the sharp ring of a front doorbell]

Mr. Birling Act 1

‘All mixed up together like bees in a hive’

Mr. Birling - Act 1

‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’

Mr. Birling - Act 1

‘I didn’t do it. She’s upsetting herself.’

Inspector Goole

Act 1

‘After all y’know we’re respectable citizens not dangerous criminals’

Gerald to Inspector Act 1

‘She’s had a long, tiring, exciting day... and now she’s had as much as she can stand’

Gerald
Act 2

‘I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted and intensely grateful’

Gerald
Act 2

‘Why - you fool- he knows. Of course he knows!’

Sheila (to Gerald
Act 2

‘You know of course that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate’

Mrs. Birling (to Inspector Goole)
Act 2

‘[Slowly, carefully now] You mustn’t try to build a wall between us and that girl ’

Sheila (to Mrs. Birling)
Act 2

‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse any money’

Mrs. Birling
Act 2

‘Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us’

Inspector Goole
Act 3

‘We are members of one body. We are all responsible for each other’

Inspector Goole
Act 3

"the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

‘The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-’

Mr. Birling
Act 3

‘Well I didn’t notice you standing up to him’

Eric
Act 3

‘I tell you - whoever that Inspector was it was anything but a joke!’

Sheila
Act 3

‘It’s better to ask for the world than to take it’

Inspector Goole

Act 1