Quotes

• 'Heavy-looking,rather portentous man...provincial in his speech'- Mr Birling
• 'A rather cold women and her husband's social superior' - Mrs Birling
• 'Pretty girl...very pleased with life and rather excited'- Sheila Birling
• 'Very much the easy well bred young man' - Gerald croft
• 'Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive'- Eric Birling
• 'I was awfully busy at the works all that time'- Gerald
• 'You'll have to get used to that, just as i had'- Mrs Birling
• 'You're just the kind of son in law i've always wanted'- Mr Birling
• 'Crofts and Birlings working together for lower costs and higher prices'- Mr Birling
• 'I'm talking as a hard headed, practical man of business. And i say there isn't a chance of war'- Mr Birling
• 'Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable' - Mr Birling
• 'There'll be peace and prosperity and rapid process everywhere'- Mr Birling
• 'Behave ourselves, don't start a scandal'- Mr Birling
• 'As if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive, community and all that nonsense'- Mr Birling
• 'A chain of events'- The Inspector
• 'I can't accept any responsibility'- Mr Birling
• 'But after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it'- The inspector
• 'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?We try for the highest possible prices'- Eric
• 'Well, of course, if i'd known that earlier, i wouldn't have called you officious and talked about reporting you'- Mr Birling
• 'But these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people' - Sheila
• 'So i'm really responsible?'- Sheila
• 'I was furious with her. I'd been in a bad temper anyhow'- Sheila
• 'If she'd been some miserable plain little creature, i don't suppose i'd have done it'- Sheila
• 'So you used the power you had to punish the girl just because she made you feel like that?'- The inspector
• 'It's the only time i've ever done anything like that, and i'll never,never do it again'- Sheila
• 'Why you fool he knows. Of course he knows. You'll see. You'll see'- Sheila