An Inspector Calls Quotes

The Engagement Party

• Lighting changes: pink and intimate until Inspector arrives; then brighter and harder.
• Sheila: "Except all last summer when you never came near me."
• Mr. Birling: "Crofts and Birlings are working together for lower costs and higher prices."

Mr. Birling's Capitalist Speech

• Describes himself as a "hard-headed practical man of business."
• Claims Titanic is "unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable."
• Criticizes the idea of communal responsibility: "You'd think that everybody has to look after everybody else."
• Dismisses the inevitability of war as "fiddlesticks."
• Believes in self-reliance: "A man has to mind his own business."

Mr. Birling's Interrogation

• Denies responsibility: "I can't accept any responsibility."
• Focus on business: "It's my duty to keep labour costs down."
• Comments on labor: "If you don't come down hard on these people, they'll soon be asking for the earth."
• Sheila's realization: "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people."
• Asserts respectability: "We're respectable citizens and not criminals."

Sheila's Interrogation

• Reaction: "I told him if they didn't get rid of that girl, I'd never go near the place again."
• Reflects on actions: "I'll never, never do it again to anybody."
• Expresses regret: "If I could help her now, I would."

Gerald's Interrogation

• Desire for connection: "All she wanted was to talk - a little friendliness."
• Takes responsibility: "I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms."
• Feels remorse: "I wish to God she had now."

Mrs. Birling's Interrogation

• Prejudice: "As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money."
• Shifts blame: "Go and look for the father of the child."
• Lacks remorse: "I did nothing I'm ashamed of."

Eric's Interrogation

• State of mind: "I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty."
• Lacks love: "I wasn't in love with her or anything."
• Feels abandoned: "You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble."

Inspector's Final Speech

• Emphasizes communal responsibility: "Each of you helped to kill her."
• Highlights larger social issues: "Millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths."
• Warns of consequences: "If men will not learn that lesson, they will be taught it in blood and fire and anguish."

The Ending

• Dismissal: "The whole story is just a lot of moonshine."
• Sheila's fear: "It frightens me the way you talk."
• Eric's reflection: "It's what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters."

A Christmas Carol Quotes

Stave 1

• Describes Scrooge: "A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner."
• Marley’s warning: "I wear the chain I forged in life."

Stave 2

• Ghost of Christmas Past: "A strange figure - like a child."

Stave 3

• Ghost of Christmas Present: "There sat a jolly Giant."
• Tiny Tim's blessing: "God bless us, every one."

Stave 4

• Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: "The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached."

Stave 5

• Scrooge's transformation: "I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future."

Macbeth Quotes

Key Moments

Battle

• Brave Macbeth: "Well he deserves that name."

Witches' Prophecies

• Foretelling: "Hail Macbeth, king hereafter."

Lady Macbeth Persuades Macbeth

• Urges action: "Screw your courage to the sticking place."

Dagger Soliloquy

• Ambition: "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent."

Duncan's Murder

• Guilt: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"

Banquo's Ghost

• Torment: "Never shake thy gory locks at me."

Macduff Gets Help

• Suffering: "All my pretty chickens and their dam in one fell swoop."

Lady Macbeth Sleepwalks and Dies

• Guilt: "Out damned spot, out I say."

The Final Battle and Macbeth's Death

• Defiance: "I bear a charmed life."

Poetry Quotes To Learn

Remains

• Trauma: "I see every round as it rips through his life."

War Photographer

• Isolation: "In his dark room he is finally alone."

Exposure

• Nature's cruelty: "The merciless iced east winds that knife us."

Bayonet Charge

• Instinct: "Suddenly he awoke and was running."

Storm on the Island

• Preparedness: "We are prepared: we build our houses squat."

The Prelude

• Nature's power: "A huge peak, black and huge."

Tissue

• Fragility: "Paper that lets the light shine through."

Checking Out Me History

• Identity: "I carving out me identity."

Poppies

• Memory: "Three days before Armistice Sunday."

Kamikaze

• Reflection: "Which had been the better way to die."

My Last Duchess

• Control: "I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together."

Ozymandias

• Hubris: "Sneer of cold command."

London

• Urban decay: "I wander through each chartered street."

The Emigrée

• Nostalgia: "There once was a country I left it as a child."

Charge of the Light Brigade

• Valor: "Noble six hundred."