| Question | Answer |
| An Inspector Calls' Quotes | |
| Mr Birling Quotes | |
| 'You're just the kind of son-in-law... | 'I always wanted.' |
| 'You'll hear some people say that war is inevitable...' | 'And to that I say - fiddlesticks.' |
| 'A man has to make his own way -...' | 'has to look after himself.' |
| '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.' |
| 'A man has to mind his own business..' | 'and look after himself.' |
| 'If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody...' | 'we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward.' |
| '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.' |
| Inspector Goole Quotes | |
| 'Public men have...' | 'responsibilities as well as privileges.' |
| 'One person and...' | 'one line of enquiry at a time |
| 'There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence in...' | 'every city and big town in the country, Mrs Birling. |
| '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.' |
| 'No thank you Mr Birling.' | 'I'm on duty.' |
| '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.' |
| Sheila Birling Quotes | |
| 'But these girls aren't cheap labour-...' | 'they're people.' |
| 'You're pretending everything's...' | 'just as it was before.' |
| Eric Birling Quotes | |
| 'It isn't if you...' | 'can't go and work somewhere else.' (Talking about Eva getting sacked) |
| 'Why shouldn't they try...' | 'for higher wages?' (Talking about the strike) |
| 'By Jove, yes. And as you were saying, Dad,...' | 'a man has to look after himself.' |
| Gerald Croft Quotes | |
| 'Any particular reason why I...' | 'shouldn't see the girls photograph, Inspector?' |
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