An Inspector Calls

Useful Quotes - "Inspector Calls"

Birling: You ought to like this port,Gerald. As a matter of fact, Finchley told me that it's exactly the same port your father gets from him.

Birling: Good dinner, too Sybil. Tell cook from me.

Sheila: Last summer????you never came near me.

Birling: Crofts and Birlings???????. working together - for lower costs and higher prices.

Birling: A man has to look after himself?????.But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody had to look after everybody else..

Birling: (Eva Smith) was one of my employees and then I discharged her??????.I can't accept any responsibility. I we were all responsible for everything that happened to everyone, it would be very awkward, wouldn't it?

Birling: Well, Inspector, I don't see that it's any concern of yours how I choose to run my business.

Birling: If you don't come down sharply on on some of these people, they'd soon be asking the earth.
Gerald: I should say so!

Eric: This girl - Eva Smith. Why shouldn't she try for higher wages?

Sheila: You talk as if we were responsible????

Inspector: (Eva) was out of work for the next two months?????she was feeling desperate????There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence in every city and big town in this country???

Gerald: We're respectable citizens, not criminals.

Sheila: I went to the manager and told him that this girl had been very impertinent????..How could I know what would happen afterwards?..............I'll never, never do it again to anybody.
Inspector: (To Gerald) You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?

Gerald: I met her ??.in the stalls bar of the Palace??Music Hall

Gerald: All she had was a port and lemonade - or some such concoction???she hadn't a penny and was about to be turned out from the miserable back room she had??I made her go to Morgan Terrace because I felt sorry for her??..

Gerald: I insisted...