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An Inspector Calls' Quotes
Cards in this deck (25)
- 1—An Inspector Calls' Quotes
- 2—Mr Birling Quotes
- 3'You're just the kind of son-in-law...'I always wanted.'
- 4'You'll hear some people say that war is inevitable...''And to that I say - fiddlesticks.'
- 5'A man has to make his own way -...''has to look after himself.'
- 6'But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has...''to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive.'
- 7'A man has to mind his own business..''and look after himself.'
- 8'If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody...''we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward.'
- 9'But take my word for it, you youngsters - and I've learnt in the good hard school of experience - that...''a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own.'
- 10—Inspector Goole Quotes
- 11'Public men have...''responsibilities as well as privileges.'
- 12'One person and...''one line of enquiry at a time
- 13'There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence in...''every city and big town in the country, Mrs Birling.
- 14'I've thought that it would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to...''put ourselves in the place of these young women counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms.'
- 15'No thank you Mr Birling.''I'm on duty.'
- 16'What happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards,...''and what happened to her afterwards may have driven her to suicide. A chain of events.'
- 17—Sheila Birling Quotes
- 18'But these girls aren't cheap labour-...''they're people.'
- 19'You're pretending everything's...''just as it was before.'
- 20—Eric Birling Quotes
- 21'It isn't if you...''can't go and work somewhere else.' (Talking about Eva getting sacked)
- 22'Why shouldn't they try...''for higher wages?' (Talking about the strike)
- 23'By Jove, yes. And as you were saying, Dad,...''a man has to look after himself.'
- 24—Gerald Croft Quotes
- 25'Any particular reason why I...''shouldn't see the girls photograph, Inspector?'
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- Flashcards on An Inspector Calls' Quotes, created by Anita Eke on 22/05/2015.
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