Arthur Birling

• •  ‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’
• • ‘Now you have brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to    a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices. ’
• • ‘Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war.’
• •  'I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn't a chance of war.'
• • ‘The titanic- she sails next week’-‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
• • “If you don’t come down hard on these people they’d soon be asking for the earth.”
• •  'Nonsense! You’ll have a good laugh over it yet! Look, you’d better ask Gerald for that ring you gave back to him, hadn’t you? Then you’ll feel better'
• ‘…Crofts and Birlings… working together, for lower costs and higher prices.’ 
• ‘We’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity.’ 

   
• ‘I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’ 
• There’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere.’  
• ‘I don’t want to lecture you two fellows again.’ 

   
• ‘Community and all that nonsense’  
• ‘Just keep quiet, Eric, and don’t get excited.’ 
• ‘It has nothing to do with the wretched girl’s suicide.’ 
• ‘I can’t accept any responsibility.’  
• ‘She was a lively good looking-girl.’  
• There isn’t the slightest reason why my daughter should be dragged into this unpleasant business.’ 
• ‘It isn’t going to do us much good. The Press might easily take it up- ‘ 

   
• ‘Look, Inspector – I’d give thousands – yes, thousands ‘ 

   
• ‘There’ll be a public scandal.’ 
• The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-‘