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'An Inspector Calls' Quotes Flashcards

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Inspector Goole

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We don’t live alone. We are members of one body.

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Inspector Goole

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If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

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Inspector Goole

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Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.

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Inspector Goole

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A young woman drank some disinfectant, and died, after several hours of agony.

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Inspector Goole

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We have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.

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Inspector Goole

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Each of you helped to kill her.

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Inspector Goole

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You’re offering the money at the wrong time.

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Inspector Goole

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It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.

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Inspector Goole

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One Eva Smith has gone—but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.

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Mr. Birling

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A man has to make his own way—has to look after himself—and his family too.

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Mr. Birling

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The way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else.

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Mr. Birling

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Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.

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Mr. Birling

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The Germans don’t want war.

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Mr. Birling

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I speak as a hard-headed business man.

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Mr. Birling

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Probably a socialist or some sort of crank.

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Mr. Birling

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She’d had a lot to say—far too much—so she had to go.

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Mr. Birling

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If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?

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Mr. Birling

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

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Mr. Birling

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I can’t accept any responsibility.

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Mrs. Birling

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Girls of that class—

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Mrs. Birling

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I did nothing I’m ashamed of.

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Mrs. Birling

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Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.

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Mrs. Birling

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I’m very sorry. But I think she had only herself to blame.

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Mrs. Birling

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Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of.

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Mrs. Birling
I accept no blame for it at all.
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Mrs. Birling
You know, of course, that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate.
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Mrs. Birling
I blame the young man who was the father of the child.
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Mrs. Birling
I was the only one who didn’t give in to him.
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Mrs. Birling
I don’t believe it. I won’t believe it.
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Sheila
But these girls aren’t cheap labour—they’re people.
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Sheila
I know I’m to blame—and I’m desperately sorry.
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Sheila
You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.
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Sheila
It’s you two who are being childish—trying not to face the facts.
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Sheila
I behaved badly too. I know I did. I’m ashamed of it.
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Sheila
I’ll never, never do it again to anybody.
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Sheila
It frightens me the way you talk.
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Sheila
You’re pretending everything’s just as it was before.
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Sheila
I suppose we’re all nice people now.
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Sheila
I can’t stop thinking about it.
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Gerald
She was young and pretty and warm-hearted—and intensely grateful.
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Gerald
I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.
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Gerald
Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?
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Gerald
I became at once the most important person in her life.
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Gerald
I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women.
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Gerald
She told me she'd been happier than she'd ever been before.
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Gerald
I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her.
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Gerald
I’m rather more upset by this business than I probably appear to be.
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Gerald
She was a wonderful girl. She didn’t blame me at all.
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Gerald
She knew it couldn’t last—didn’t expect it to.
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Eric
You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble.
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Eric
I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty.
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Eric
I didn’t even remember—that’s the hellish thing.
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Eric
My God!—I’m not likely to forget.
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Eric
The money’s not the important thing. It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters.
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Eric
And I say the girl's dead and we all helped to kill her—and that’s what matters—
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Eric
Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?
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Eric
It’s still the same rotten story whether it’s been told to a police inspector or to somebody else.
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Eric
I don’t give a damn now whether I stay here or not.
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Inspector Goole
Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.
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Inspector Goole
We are responsible for each other.
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Inspector Goole
One line of enquiry at a time. Otherwise, there’s a muddle.
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Inspector Goole
You’re not even sorry now, when you know what happened.
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Inspector Goole
This girl killed herself—and died a horrible death. But each of you helped to kill her.
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Inspector Goole
Remember that. Never forget it.
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Inspector Goole
The time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.
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Inspector Goole
She wasn’t pretty when I saw her today, but she had been pretty—very pretty.
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Inspector Goole
The young ones are more impressionable.
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Sheila
It’s queer—very queer—it’s queer all right.
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Sheila
You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here.
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Sheila
He inspected us all right. And don’t let’s start dodging and pretending now.
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Sheila
I had her turned out of a job.
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Sheila
So nothing really happened. So there’s nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn.
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Sheila
You’re forgetting I’m supposed to be engaged to the hero of it.
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Sheila
He’s giving us the rope—so that we’ll hang ourselves.
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Sheila
You’re ready to go on in the same old way.
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Sheila
You’re just beginning to pretend all over again.
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Sheila
You’ve had children. You must have known what she was feeling.
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Narration/Stage Direction
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder.
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Narration/Stage Direction
The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike.
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Narration/Stage Direction
As they stare guiltily and dumbfounded, the curtain falls.
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Narration/Stage Direction
He creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness.
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General
The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything.
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General
You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all.
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General
Everything we said had happened really had happened.
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General
The girl’s dead though, isn’t she?
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General
You’re the one I blame for this.
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General
Well, he inspected us all right.
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Mr. Birling
There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did.
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Mr. Birling
Look, Inspector—I’d give thousands—yes, thousands—
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Mr. Birling
The whole story’s just a lot of moonshine. Nothing but an elaborate sell!
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Mr. Birling
Now look at the pair of them—the famous younger generation who know it all.
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Mr. Birling
Rubbish! If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.
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Mr. Birling
By Jingo! A fake!
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Mr. Birling
You’re behaving like a hysterical child tonight.
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Mr. Birling
Nothing to do with you, Sheila. Run along.
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Mr. Birling
We were having a nice little family celebration tonight.
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Mr. Birling
You’ll apologize at once.

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