An Inspector Calls Quotes by Character

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Arthur
heavy looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech
Arthur
You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted
Arthur
for lower costs and higher prices
Arthur
and we're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity
Arthur
fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war
Arthur
unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
Arthur
There'll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere
Arthur
I can't accept any responsibility
Arthur
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?
Arthur
it's my duty to keep labour costs down
Arthur
If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth
Arthur
explosively
Arthur
You're the one I blame for this
Arthur
There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did
Arthur
it matters a devil of a lot
Arthur
Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank
Arthur
don't stand there being hysterical
Arthur
the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke-
Sheila
pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
Sheila
except for all last summer, when you never came near me
Sheila
You're squiffy
Sheila
is it the one you wanted me to have?
Sheila
I've been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn't told me
Sheila
these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people
Sheila
stormily
Sheila
laughs rather hysterically
Sheila
you fool - he knows. Of course he knows
Sheila
wonderingly and dubiously
Sheila
You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down
Sheila
No, he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves
Sheila
You were the wonderful Fairy Prince
Sheila
Mother - stop - stop!
Sheila
he inspected us all right
Sheila
Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide
Sheila
If it didn't end tragically, then that's lucky for us
Sheila
It frightens me the way you talk
Sheila
You began to learn something. And now you've stopped
Gerald
an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town
Gerald
You seem to be a nice well-behaved family
Gerald
Unless Eric's been up to something. (Nodding confidentially to Birling.) And that would be awkward wouldn't it?
Gerald
we're respectable citizens and not criminals
Gerald
She's had a long, exciting and tiring day
Gerald
young and pretty and warm-hearted
Gerald
it wasn't disgusting
Gerald
Everything's all right now, Sheila. [...] What about this ring?
Mrs Birling
a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior
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Mrs Birling
Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things
Mrs Birling
Nothing but morbid curiosity
Mrs Birling
That - I consider - is a trifle impertinent, Inspector
Mrs Birling
very sharply
Mrs Birling
I don't think we want any further details of this disgusting affair
Mrs Birling
We've done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases
Mrs Birling
simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case
Mrs Birling
I think she had only herself to blame
Mrs Birling
I did nothing I'm ashamed of or that won't bear investigation
Mrs Birling
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her postion
Mrs Birling
I accept no blame for it at all
Mrs Birling
make sure that he's compelled to confess in public his responsibility
Mrs Birling
his manner was quite extraordinary, so - so rude - and assertive-
Mrs Birling
from the way you children talk, you might be wanting to help him instead of us
Mrs Birling
They're over-tired
Eric
not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
Eric
I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty - and I threatened to make a row
Eric
you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble - that's why
Eric
He was our police inspector all right
Eric
The girl's still dead, isn't she? Nobody's brought her to life, have they?
Eric
I don't see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself
Inspector
he creates at once an impression of massiveness
Inspector
plain darkish suit of the period
Inspector
He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before speaking
Inspector
gravely
Inspector
it's better to ask for the earth than to take it
Inspector
I don't play golf
Inspector
cutting in, massively
Inspector
Sometimes there isn't as much difference as you think
Inspector
And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?
Inspector
we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt
Inspector
We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable
Inspector
You have no hope of not discussing it, Mrs Birling
Inspector
very deliberately
Inspector
There'll be plenty of time, when I've gone, for you all to adjust your family relationships
Inspector
each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it
Inspector
Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person
Inspector
sardonically
Inspector
there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us
Inspector
their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do
Inspector
We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other
Inspector
the time will come soon when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish
Edna
Please, sir, an inspector's called
Other
the sharp ring of a front door bell
Other
The telephone rings sharply
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