‘… unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’(Act One – Mr Birling)

‘there’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honour’s list’(Act One – Mr Birling)

‘a man has to make his own way – has to look after himself … community and all that nonsense’(Act One – Mr Birling)

‘She’d had a lot to say – far too much – she had to go’(Act One – Mr Birling)

‘When you’re married you’ll realise that a man with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business’ (Act One –Mr Birling)

‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl of her position’(Act Two - Mrs Birling)

‘I accept no blame at all … I blame the young man who was the father of the child’(Act Two – Mrs Birling)

‘I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn’t told me’(Act One - Sheila)

‘These girls aren’t cheap labour. They’re people’(Act One – Sheila)

‘…he knows. Of course he knows.(Act One - Sheila)

‘Between us we drove that girl to suicide’(Act Three – Sheila)

‘You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here’(Act Two - Sheila)

‘He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out’(Act One - Eric)

‘I was in the state when a chap gets a little nasty’(Act Three – Eric)

‘I didn’t even remember – that’s the hellish thing’(Act Three – Eric)

‘You’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he’s in trouble’(Act Three – Eric)

‘It’s what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters’(Act Three – Eric)

‘I think Miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning’(Act Two – Gerald)

‘I’ve suddenly realised – taken it in properly – that she’s dead’(Act Two – Gerald)

‘I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her’(Act Two – Gerald)

‘She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before’(Act Two – Gerald)

‘Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring?’(Act Three – Gerald)

‘What happened to her … a chain of events’(Act One – Inspector)

‘It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it’(Act One – Inspector)

‘There are a lot of young women living that sort of existence’(Act One – Insepctor)

‘We have to share something. If nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt’(Act Two – Inspector)

‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’(Act Two – Inspector)

‘Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it.’(Act Three – Inspector)

‘Fire and blood and anguish’(Act Three – Inspector)