Inspector Calls Quotes

Question 1

‘Well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down’

Answer 1

Mr Birling- Act 1

Question 2

‘I can’t accept any responsibility’

Answer 2

Mr Birling- Act 1

Question 3

‘A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself – and his family too’

Answer 3

Mr Birling- Act 1

Question 4

‘Is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you, Inspector?’.

Answer 4

Mr Birling- Act 2

Question 5

‘I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List.’

Answer 5

Mr Birling- Act 3

Question 6

‘This makes a difference, y’know. In fact, it makes all the difference’.

Answer 6

Mr Birling- Act 3

Question 7

‘I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can’

Answer 7

Mr Birling- Act 3

Question 8

‘When you’re married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes spend nearly all their time and energy on their business.’

Answer 8

Mrs Birling- Act 1

Question 9

‘Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such things’

Answer 9

Mrs Birling- Act 1

Question 10

‘I don’t think you ought to talk business on an occasion like this.’

Answer 10

Mrs Birling- Act 1

Question 11

You know, of course, that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago

Answer 11

Mrs Birling- Act 2

Question 12

‘She had only herself to blame’

Answer 12

Mrs Birling- Act 2

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Mrs Birling- Act 2

Question 14

‘It’s you – and not the Inspector’

Answer 14

Mrs Birling- Act 2

Question 15

‘You seem to have made a great impression on this child’

Answer 15

Mrs Birling- Act 2

Question 16

‘It would be much better if Sheila didn’t listen to this story at all’.

Answer 16

Mrs Birling- Act 2

Question 17

‘but I didn’t know it was you’

Answer 17

Mrs Birling- Act 3

Question 18

‘I was the only one who didn’t give in to him’.

Answer 18

Mrs Birling- Act 3

Question 19

‘So I’m really responsible?’

Answer 19

Sheila- Act 1

Question 20

‘Is it the one you wanted me to have… now I really feel engaged’

Answer 20

Sheila- Act 1

Question 21

‘Why – you fool – he knows!’

Answer 21

Sheila- Act 1

Question 22

‘Mummy – isn’t it a beauty?’

Answer 22

Sheila- Act 1

Question 23

‘I’m afraid you’ll say something or do something that you’ll be sorry for afterwards’

Answer 23

Sheila- Act 2

Question 24

‘We really must stop these silly pretences’

Answer 24

Sheila- Act 2

Question 25

‘You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here’

Answer 25

Sheila- Act 2

Question 26

‘Mother, I think that was cruel and vile.’

Answer 26

Sheila- Act 2

Question 27

‘You don’t seem to have learnt anything’

Answer 27

Sheila- Act 3

Question 28

‘It frightens me the way you talk.’

Answer 28

Sheila- Act 3

Question 29

'Everything we said had happened really happened'

Answer 29

Sheila- Act 3

Question 30

Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive

Answer 30

Eric- Act 1

Question 31

‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?’

Answer 31

Eric- Act 1

Question 32

'You killed her! She came to you to protect me – and you turned her away… your own grandchild – you killed them both – damn you’.

Answer 32

Eric- Act 3

Question 33

‘I wasn’t in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and a good sport’.

Answer 33

Eric- Act 3

Question 34

‘She told me she didn’t want me to go in, but… I threatened to make a row’.

Answer 34

Eric- Act 3

Question 35

‘I don’t give a damn’

Answer 35

Eric- Act 3

Question 36

‘I think my father would agree to that, too.’

Answer 36

Gerald- Act 1

Question 37

‘I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.’

Answer 37

Gerald- Act 2

Question 38

‘What about this ring?’

Answer 38

Gerald- Act 3

Question 39

‘A chain of events’

Answer 39

Inspector Goole- Act 1

Question 40

‘Public men, Mr Birling, have their responsibilities as well as their privileges’.

Answer 40

Inspector Goole- Act 2

Question 41

‘And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant things?’

Answer 41

Inspector Goole- Act 2

Question 42

‘Each of you helped to kill her.'

Answer 42

Inspector Goole- Act 3

Question 43

'there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths'

Answer 43

Inspector Goole- Act 3

Question 44

‘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’.

Answer 44

Inspector Goole- Act 3