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An Inspector Calls - Quotes

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'Mr Birling is a ___________ man in his middle fifties with ___________ but rather ___________ in his speech.' - Opening Stage Directions
heavy-looking, rather portentous | fairly easy manners | provincial
(They stare ___________.)
guiltily and dumbfounded
'you'd think everybody has to ___________, as if we were ___________ – community and all that ___________' - Mr Birling
look after everybody else | all mixed up together like bees in a hive | nonsense
'Between us, we ___________.' - Sheila Birling
drove that girl to commit suicide
'I accept ___________ for it at all' - Mrs Birling
no blame
(Mrs Birling does not reply. She looks ___________.)
disturbed
'You mustn't try to ___________ between us and ___________. If you do, then the Inspector will just ___________.' - Sheila Birling
build up a kind of wall | that girl | break it down
'We’re ___________ and not ___________.' - Gerald Croft
respectable citizens | criminals
'I suppose it was ___________.' - Gerald Croft
inevitable
'There'll be a ___________' - Mr Birling
public scandal
'Girls ___________ –' - Mrs Birling
of that class
'It was ___________.' - Sheila Birling
my own fault
'Gerald Croft is an ___________ about thirty, rather ___________ but very much the ___________.' - Opening Stage Directions
attractive chap | too manly to be a dandy | easy well-bred young man-about-town
(Eric enters, looking ___________.)
extremely pale and distressed
'I hate those ___________.' - Gerald Croft
hard-eyed, dough-faced women
'She was very pretty – ___________ and ___________.' - Gerald Croft
soft brown hair | big dark eyes
'___________, absolutely ___________' - Mr Birling
unsinkable
'She was ___________ and ___________.' - Eric Birling
pretty | a good sport
'The Inspector need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of ___________.' - Stage Directions
massiveness, solidity and purposefulness
'You think ___________ ought to be protected against ___________?' - The Inspector
young women | unpleasant and disturbing things
'You're not the kind of ___________ when he's in trouble.' - Eric Birling
father a chap could go to
'Everything’s ___________, Sheila. What about ___________?' - Gerald Croft
all right now | this ring
'The dining room of a ___________, belonging to a ___________.' - Opening Stage Directions
fairly large suburban house | prosperous manufacturer
'Sheila is a ___________ in her early twenties, very ___________.' - Opening Stage Directions
pretty girl | pleased with life and rather excited
'But these girls aren't ___________ – they're people.' - Sheila Birling
cheap labour
'I was in ___________.' - Eric Birling
that state when a chap easily turns nasty
'We are ___________. We are ___________.' - The Inspector
members of one body | responsible for each other
'You don't seem to have ___________.' - Sheila Birling
learnt anything
'There are ___________ of ___________ still left with us.' - The Inspector
millions and millions and millions | Eva Smiths and John Smiths
'If men will not ___________, then they will be taught it in ___________.' - The Inspector
learn that lesson | fire and blood and anguish
'She was ___________ – and ___________.' - Gerald Croft
young and pretty and warm-hearted | intensely grateful
'the ___________ suicide' - Mr Birling
wretched girl's
'He speaks ___________, and has a disconcerting habit of ___________ before actually speaking.' - Stage Directions
carefully, weightily | looking hard at the person he addresses
'It's what ___________ and what we ___________ that matters.' - Eric Birling
happened to the girl | all did to her
'You lot may be ___________, but I can't.' - Eric Birling
letting yourselves out nicely
'There isn't ___________. We've been had.' - Gerald Croft
any such inspector
'The famous ___________ who know it all. And they can't even take a joke.' - Mr Birling
younger generation
'I was the only one ___________' - Mrs Birling
who didn't give in to him
'A ___________ woman and her husband’s ___________.' - Opening Stage Directions
rather cold | social superior
'Each of you helped to kill her. ___________' - The Inspector
Remember that. Never forget it.
'I suppose ___________ now.' - Sheila Birling
we're all nice people
'young women ___________ in their ___________ bedrooms' - The Inspector
counting their pennies | dingy little back
'It's better to ___________.' - The Inspector
ask for the earth than to take it
'The lighting should be ___________ until the Inspector arrives, and then it should be ___________.' - Opening Stage Directions
pink and intimate | brighter and harder
'I didn't feel about her ___________.' - Gerald Croft
as she felt about me
'Go and look for the ___________. It's his ___________.' - Mrs Birling
father of the child | responsibility
'A man has to ___________ – has to ___________ – and his family too, of
course.' - Mr Birling
make his own way | look after himself
'She only ___________' - Mrs Birling
had herself to blame
'I can't accept ___________' - Mr Birling
any responsibility
'She died in ___________ – ___________.' - The Inspector
misery and agony | hating life
(Sheila stares at him ___________.)
wonderingly and dubiously
'The girl's ___________ and we ___________ – and that's what matters.' - Eric Birling
dead | all helped to kill her
'She had a lot to say – ___________ – so she had to go.' - Mr Birling
far too much
'She was ___________ and at that moment was ___________.' - The Inspector
desperately hard up | actually hungry
(The telephone ___________.)
rings sharply
'Eric is in his early twenties, ___________, half ___________, half ___________.' - Opening Stage Directions
not quite at ease | shy | assertive
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