An Inspector Calls - Memorising quotations

Hi,

Here's the list of 'super-quotes' from today:

AN inspector calls: essential quotes

Quote trigger words:

Titanic costs chain the earth.

Business bees hang girls.

Impertinent wall.

Hysterical women spoilt in fire!

1)      Mr Birling: Why, a friend of mine went over this new liner last week – the Titanic – she sails next week – forty-six thousand eight hundred tons – New York in five days – and every luxury – and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.

2)      Mr Birling: …working together – for lower costs and higher prices. 

3)      Inspector: …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.

4)      Inspector: It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.

5)      Mr Birling: Yes, yes. Horrid business.

6)      Mr Birling: As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive.

7)      Sheila: No, he's giving us the rope – so that we'll hang ourselves.

8)      …girls of that class… / As if a girl of that sort would refuse money.

9)      Sheila: this girl had been very impertinent…

Mrs B: …that – I consider – is a trifle impertinent, inspector.

Sheila: …impertinent is such a silly word. 

10)  …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.

11)  Sheila: He means that I’m getting hysterical now.

Mrs Birling: You’re behaving like an hysterical child tonight

12)  Mrs Birling: Women of the town?

13)  Mr Birling: Your trouble is – you’ve been spoilt.

14)  Inspector: One Eva Smith has gone – but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do. We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

Finally, in case you want to create your own 'memory-gym', here are the pics from my lesson today.

Enjoy!

Mr M