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Mrs birling quotes
‘(with a cry) Oh – Eric – how could you?’
‘(very distressed now) No – Eric – please – I didn’t know – I didn’t understand-‘
‘Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things’
‘Sheila! What an expression! Really, the things you girls pick up these days!’
‘Now Sheila don’t tease him. When you’re married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business.’
‘Now Arthur, I don’t think you ought to talk business on an occasion like this.’
(different editions): Thinks her family are perfect ‘(staggered) It isn’t true. You know him, Gerald – and you’re a man – you must know it isn’t true.’
Snob ‘(Triumphantly) Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I say I couldn’t imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?’
Classist Snob. Thinks she is socially and morally superior ‘I don’t suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-’
‘That – I consider – is a trifle impertinent, Inspector’
‘Please don’t contradict me like that’
Accuses Sheila of staying for: ‘Nothing but morbid curiosity’
‘I’m talking to the inspector now if you don’t mind’
Intimidation ‘You know of course that my husband was lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate.’
Lying to cover her back ‘Though naturally I don’t know anything about this girl’
‘Over excited… And she refuses to go.’
Ignorant ‘It would be much better if Sheila didn’t listen to this story at all’
Thinks upper class are perfect ‘(staggered) Well, really! Aldermand Meggarty! I must say, we are learning something tonight’
‘I don’t think we want any further details of this disgusting affair’
‘It’s disgusting to me.’Facade to make her look good ‘(with dignity) Yes. We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases.’
‘I don’t understand you Inspector’Page
And if I was, what business is it of yours?’
Classist Snob because Eva used her name. ‘Yes I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence.’
‘Yes, I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence – quite deliberate – and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case.’
‘But I think she had only herself to blame’
Snobbish Attitude ‘If you think you can bring any pressure to bear upon me, Inspector, you’re quite mistaken. Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear investigation.’
‘You have no power to make me change my mind.’
I didn’t like her manner. She’d impertinently made use of our name, though she pretended afterwards it just happened to be the first she thought of. She had to admit, after I began questioning her, that she had no claim to the name, that she wasn’t married, and that the story she told me first – about a husband who’d deserted her – was quite false. It didn’t take me long to get the truth – or some of the truth – out of her.
‘Simply a gross piece of impertinence’
Gets rid of blame on her. ‘I’ll tell you what I told her. Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility.’
Blames her own husband (‘agitated now) Oh, stop it, both of you. And please remember before you start accusing me of anything again that it wasn’t I who had her turned out of her employment – which probably began it all.’
‘All a lot of nonsense- I didn’t believe a word of it. ‘
Classist Snob ‘As if a girl of that sort would refuse money.’
‘I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept no blame for it at all.’
‘I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have. If, as she said, he didn’t belong to her class, and was some drunken young idler, then that’s all the more reason why he shouldn’t escape. He should be made an example of. If the girl’s death is due to anybody, then it’s due to him.’
‘(severely) You’re behaving like an hysterical child tonight.’
‘And if you’d take some steps to find this young man and then make sure that he’s compelled to confess in public his responsibility – instead of staying here asking quite unnecessary questions – then you really would be doing your duty.’
Naive, Ignorant ‘I don’t believe it. I won’t believe it’
(understanding now) But surely…I mean…it’s ridiculous…’
‘I felt it all the time. He never talking like one. He never even looked like one’
‘I wish I’d been here when that man first arrived. I’d have asked him a few questions before I allowed him to ask us any.’
‘I was the only one who didn’t give in to him’
‘Gerald you’ve argued this very cleverly and I’m most grateful’
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