Statistics for An Inspector Calls Quotes by Character

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Arthur	unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable	58%
Inspector	I don't play golf	47%
Arthur	fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war	11%
Sheila	is it the one you wanted me to have?	11%
Inspector	it's better to ask for the earth than to take it	11%
Mrs Birling	very sharply	11%
Edna	Please, sir, an inspector's called	11%
Arthur	and we're in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity	5%
Arthur	for lower costs and higher prices	5%
Sheila	he inspected us all right	5%
Mrs Birling	a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior	5%
Arthur	I can't accept any responsibility	5%
Arthur	explosively	5%
Sheila	stormily	5%
Sheila	It frightens me the way you talk	5%
Arthur	it's my duty to keep labour costs down	5%
Gerald	it wasn't disgusting	5%
Sheila	Mother - stop - stop!	5%
Sheila	No, he's giving us the rope - so that we'll hang ourselves	5%
Arthur	There'll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere	5%
Other	The telephone rings sharply	5%
Mrs Birling	They're over-tired	5%
Sheila	You're squiffy	5%
Sheila	You were the wonderful Fairy Prince	5%
Inspector	And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?	0%
Mrs Birling	Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things	0%
Sheila	Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide	0%
Arthur	don't stand there being hysterical	0%
Inspector	each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it	0%
Gerald	Everything's all right now, Sheila. [...] What about this ring?	0%
Sheila	except for all last summer, when you never came near me	0%
Mrs Birling	from the way you children talk, you might be wanting to help him instead of us	0%
Inspector	gravely	0%
Eric	He was our police inspector all right	0%
Mrs Birling	his manner was quite extraordinary, so - so rude - and assertive-	0%
Mrs Birling	I accept no blame for it at all	0%
Gerald	an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town	0%
Inspector	cutting in, massively	0%
Mrs Birling	I did nothing I'm ashamed of or that won't bear investigation	0%
Eric	I don't see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself	0%
Mrs Birling	I don't think we want any further details of this disgusting affair	0%
Sheila	If it didn't end tragically, then that's lucky for us	0%
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?	0%
Arthur	If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth	0%
Arthur	heavy looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech	0%
Inspector	he creates at once an impression of massiveness	0%
Inspector	He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before speaking	0%
Eric	not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive	0%
Inspector	plain darkish suit of the period	0%
Sheila	pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited	0%
Inspector	sardonically	0%
Mrs Birling	I think she had only herself to blame	0%
Arthur	it matters a devil of a lot	0%
Sheila	I've been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn't told me	0%
Inspector	very deliberately	0%
Eric	I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty - and I threatened to make a row	0%
Inspector	Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person	0%
Sheila	laughs rather hysterically	0%
Mrs Birling	make sure that he's compelled to confess in public his responsibility	0%
Mrs Birling	Nothing but morbid curiosity	0%
Arthur	Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank	0%
Gerald	She's had a long, exciting and tiring day	0%
Mrs Birling	She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her postion	0%
Mrs Birling	simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case	0%
Inspector	Sometimes there isn't as much difference as you think	0%
Mrs Birling	That - I consider - is a trifle impertinent, Inspector	0%
Arthur	the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke-	0%
Eric	The girl's still dead, isn't she? Nobody's brought her to life, have they?	0%
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	0%
Inspector	there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us	0%
Inspector	There'll be plenty of time, when I've gone, for you all to adjust your family relationships	0%
Arthur	There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did	0%
Sheila	these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people	0%
Other	the sharp ring of a front door bell	0%
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	0%
Gerald	Unless Eric's been up to something. (Nodding confidentially to Birling.) And that would be awkward wouldn't it?	0%
Inspector	We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other	0%
Inspector	we have to share something. If there's nothing else, we'll have to share our guilt	0%
Inspector	We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable	0%
Gerald	we're respectable citizens and not criminals	0%
Mrs Birling	We've done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases	0%
Sheila	wonderingly and dubiously	0%
Sheila	You began to learn something. And now you've stopped	0%
Sheila	you fool - he knows. Of course he knows	0%
Inspector	You have no hope of not discussing it, Mrs Birling	0%
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	0%
Gerald	young and pretty and warm-hearted	0%
Arthur	You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted	0%
Eric	you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble - that's why	0%
Arthur	You're the one I blame for this	0%
Gerald	You seem to be a nice well-behaved family	0%