An Inspector Calls Revision: quotations

But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people.

• Mrs Birling

• Mr Birling

• Eric Birling

• Sheila Birling

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

• Inspector Goole

• Eric Birling

• Gerald Croft

• Mr Birling

We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other

• Mr Birling

• Mrs Birling

• Inspector Goole

• Eric Birling

You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble.

• Gerald Croft

• Mrs Birling

• Eric Birling

• Sheila Birling

Look, Inspector, I’d give thousands…

• Mrs Birling

• Gerald Croft

• Eric Birling

• Mr Birling

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 Birling

• Mrs Birling

• Inspector Goole

• Eric Birling

If you don’t come down hard on these people they’ll soon be asking for the earth.

• Mr Birling

• Gerald Croft

• Mrs Birling

• Inspector Goole

Girls of that class

• Mrs Birling

• Sheila Birling

• Edna

• Eric Birling

A man has to make his own way

• Eric Birling

• Gerald Croft

• Mr Birling

• Inspector Goole

Clothes mean something quite different to a woman...a sort of sign or token of their self-respect.

• Gerald Croft

• Mrs Birling

• Sheila Birling

• Mr Birling