Quotes for each character in An Inspector Calls can be linked to specific themes, the document also contains contextual points which can help to deepen an individual's knowledge of the play and to include in essays. With additional contextual links of Priestley's postscript, these can help to gain ...
An inspector calls
Mr Birling (Arthur Birling)
I only did what any other employers might have done (Act 1)
‘A heavy looking rather portentous man’ (Act 1)
‘Hard-headed practical businessman’ (Act 1)
‘Your engagement Sheila means a tremendous lot to me’ (Act 1)
‘Lower costs and high prices’ (Act 1)
‘Its my duty to keep labour costs down’ (Act 1)
‘So as long as we behave ourselves, don’t get into a police court or start a scandal’ (Act 1)
‘I can’t accept any responsibility’ (Act 1)
‘Just let me finish Eric you have a lot to learn’ (Act 1)
‘If you don’t come down hard on these people they’ll soon be asking for the earth’ (Act 1)
‘Not only to make them look prettier but a sort of sign or token of their self-respect’ (Act 1)
‘Settle it sensibly for you’ (Act 1)
‘A man has to make his own way – he has to look after himself – and his family to’ (Act 1)
‘You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else as if we’re all mixed up like bees in a hive’
(Act 1)
‘There’s every excuse of what your mother and I did’ (Act 3)
‘Sit down you young hysterical fool – get back – or I’ll’ (Act 3)
‘Now look at the pair of them… who know it all… they can’t even take a joke’ (Act 3)
Mrs Birling (Sybil Birling)
‘When you’re married, you’ll realise men have important work… sometimes have to spend nearly all
their time and energy on business’ (Act 1)
‘A rather cold women and her husband’s social superior’ (Act 1)
‘She was claiming fine elaborate feeling and scruples that were simply absurd for a girl in her
position’ (Act 2)
‘But I accept no blame for it at all’ (Act 2)
‘Girls of that class’ (Act 2)
‘I did nothing I’m ashamed off’ (Act 2)
‘So, I was perfectly justified in advising my committee not to allow her claim for assistance’ (Act 3)
‘Well why shouldn’t we’(When Sheila says sarcastically ‘We can go on having just as we did’) (Act 3)
Sheila Birling
‘Very pleased with life and rather excited’ (Act 1)
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