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Summary An Inspector Calls Characters Quotes
Over 65 of the best chosen quotes for the main characters in An Inspector Calls, including Eric, Sheila, Mr Birling, Mrs Birling, Gerald and Inspector Goole
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Eric “You killed her – and the child…your own grandchild”
“You don’t understand anything. You never did. You never even tried”
"Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh.”
“She wasn’t the usual sort”
“I hate these fat old tarts”
“in that state when a chap easily turns nasty”
“I threatened to make a row”
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”
“You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble.”
“The girl’s still dead, isn’t she?”
“She was a good sport.”
“Half shy, half assertive.”
Sheila “I was in a furious temper”
“I felt rotten about it at the time”
“If I could help her now, I would”
“I suppose we're all nice people now”
“It's you two who are being childish - trying not to face the facts”
“Very pleased with life and rather excited”
“But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people”
“I couldn’t feel sorry for her.”
“Don’t be an ass Eric.”
“Why- you fool- he knows.”
“No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves”
“It frightens me the way you talk”
Mr Birling “There’s a fair chance that I may find myself into the next honours list.”
“Lower costs and higher prices.”
“It’s my duty to keep labour costs down.”
“Probably a socialist or some sort of crank”
“It happened more than eighteen months ago… obviously it has nothing to do
with the wretched girl’s suicide.”
“I don’t like your tone nor the way you’re handling this enquiry.”
“I care. I was almost certain for a Knighthood in the next honours list.”
“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
“You’ll hear some people say that war is inevitable. And to that I say –
fiddlesticks!”
“I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business”
“Now look at the pair of them- the famous younger generation who know it
all. And they can’t even take a joke-”
Mrs Birling “A piece of gross impertinence”
“She had only herself to blame”
“I did nothing I'm ashamed of”
“First I blame the girl herself. Secondly, I blame the young man”
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