An Inspector Calls Quotes Flashcards
(12 cards)
Gender Quotes
“I did keep a girl last summer”
“Simply absurd for a girl in her position”
Responsibility quotes
“A man has to make his own was, has to look after himself - and his family too, of course”
“Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges”
“We are members of one body, we are responsible for each other… we will be taught this is blood, fire and anguish”
“I’m very sorry but I think she had only herself to blame”
Guilt quotes
“So I’m really responsible?”
“I know I’m to blame and I’m desperately sorry”
“I can’t stop thinking about it”
Class quotes
“Girls of that class”
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money
“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl”
Capitalism vs socialism quotes
“Working together for lower costs and higher prices”
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, thier people”
“Mixed together like bees in a hive”
Generational divide quotes
“Now you young people - listen to this”
“The point is, you don’t seem have learnt anything”
Inspector Ghoul Quotes
“An impression of massiveness, solidity and purposfulness”
“I don’t play golf”
“Better to ask for the world than take it”
Mr Birling quotes
“Heavy looking, rather portentous”
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble”
“The germans don’t want war”
“The titanic is unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
“Still, I can’t take any responsibility”
Sheila quotes
“Very pleased with life”
“No he’s giving us the rope to hang ourselves”
Sybil Birling
“Husband’s social superior”
“That was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case”
“Men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business”
Eric
“Half-shy, half-assertive
“I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty”
Gerald
“We’re respectable citizens, not animals”
“I’m rather more - upset - by this business than I probably appear”
