“Heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech”

“It’s the exact same port your farther gets”

“A man has to mind his own business and after himself and his own”

“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”

“The Germans don’t want war”

“Look inspector, Id give thousands…”

“By Jingo! A fake!” “So long as we behave ourselves, don’t get into

the police court or start a scandal – eh”

“If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very

awkward, wouldn’t it?”

“[To Sheila] Nothing but morbid curiosity”

“[When talking about the Inspector] Probably a

Socialist or some sort of crank”

“Girls of that class”

“about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior”

“Your not the type – You don’t get drunk”

“Unlike the other three, I did nothing I

am ashamed of” “Yes, I think it was a piece of gross impertinence”

“[When asked who is to blame] First, the girl herself. … Secondly, I blame the young man who was

the father of the child… He should be made an example of”

“Last summer, when you never came near

me”

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour – There

people”

“a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited”

“You mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that

girl. If you do, then the inspector will just break it down. And it will be all the worse when he

does ”“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here”

“I suppose we’re all nice people now”

“Between us we drove that girl to suicide”

“We really must stop these silly pretences”

“I rather respect you more than I’ve ever done

before”

“[To Mr Birling] The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything”

“I don’t come into this suicide business”

“an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred man-about-town”

“Sorry – I – well, I’ve suddenly realised – taken it in properly – that she's

dead”

“We’re respectable citizens and not

criminals”

“Yes. We can keep it from him”

“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”

“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

“I am ashamed of you”

“Because your not the kind of farther a chap can go to when he’s in trouble – That’s why”

“It’s still the same rotten story whether its been

told to a police inspector or somebody else”

“Oh – my god! – how stupid it all is!”

“I wasn’t in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and

a good sport”

“an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties, dressed in a plain darkish suit. He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking.”

“We are all members of one body. We are responsible

for each other”

“Each of you helped to kill her”

“You see, we have to share something. If

there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt”

“[To Mr Birling] Why should you do any

protesting? It was you who turned the girl out

in the first place”