Mr Birling

• ‘A heavy looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in speech’
• ‘no longer competing’
• ‘you’re just the kind of son in law I’ve always wanted’
• ‘Hard-headed practical man of business’
• ‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable‘
• ‘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’
• ‘nothing whatsoever to do with the wretched girls suicide’
• ‘can’t take any responsibility’
• ‘It would be very awkward wouldn’t it’
• ‘until every penny of the money you stole is repaid, you’ll work for nothing’
• ‘Makes all the difference’
• ‘as if we were mixed up together like bees in a hive’