Mr Birling key quotes

• ‘A heavy looking man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in speech’
• Sybil is his ‘social superior’
• ‘no longer competing’
• ‘lower costs and higher prices‘
• ‘you’re just the kind of son in law I always wanted’
• ‘a hard-headed man of business’
• ‘there’s a good deal of silly talk about these days’
• ‘we employers at last are coming together to see that our interests and-the interests of the capital-are properly protected’
• ‘the Germans don’t want war’
• ’no chance of war’
• ‘a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too of course, if he has one’
• ‘several hundred women’
• ‘ I was an alderman for years - and Lord Mayor two years ago - and I’m still on the bench’
• ‘I can’t accept any responsibility’
• ‘If we were all responsible for what everything that happened…it would all be very awkward wouldn’t it’
• ‘as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive’
• ‘She’d had a lot to say- far too much
• ‘I refused, of course’
• ‘he’s (Chief constable) an old friend of mine’ ‘we play golf together‘
• ‘Well, don’t tell me thats. because I discharged her from my employment’
• ‘until every penny of the money you stole is repaid, you’ll work for nothing’
• ‘It’s all over now’
• ‘makes all the difference’
• ’the famous generation can’t even take a joke’