quotes

• “you killed her - and the child… your own grandchild” - eric
• ”you don’t understand anything. you never did. you never even tried.” - eric
• ”[suddently guffaws] i don’t know - really. suddenly i felt i just had to laugh.” - eric
• ”she wasn’t the usual sort” - eric
• ”she didn’t know what to do” - eric
• ”i hate these fat old tarts” - eric
• ”i insisted - it seems” - eric
• ”in that state when a chap easily turns nasty” - eric
• ”i threatened to make a row” - eric
• ”[involuntarily] my god!” - eric
• ”[not too rudely] well, don’t do any. we’ll drink to their health and have done with it.” - eric
• ”why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?” - eric
• ”you said yourself she was a good worker” - eric
• ”where did you get the idea that i did know her?” - gerald
• ”sorry - i - well, i’ve suddenly realised - taken it in properly - that she’s dead” - gerald
• ”yes i think you were (justified in getting eva sacked)“

  “you couldn’t have done anything else” - gerald
• “[rather too manly to be a dandy]” - gerald
• ”[easy well-bred young man-about-town]” - gerald
• ”i insisted / i made her take some money“ - gerald
• ”she was pretty - soft brown hair and big dark eyes - [breaks off] my god!” - gerald
• ”looked young and fresh and charming” - gerald about eva
• ”young and fresh and charming and altogether out of place down there” - gerald about eva
• ”women of the town” - gerald
• ”i hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women” - gerald
• ”it wasn’t disgusting” - gerald
• ”provincial in his speech” - about mr birling
• ”you ought to like this port, gerald. its exactly the same port your father gets.” - mr birling
• ”there’s a fair chance that i may find myself into the next honours list” - mr birling
• ”we may look forward to the time when croft and birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices” - mr birling
• ”as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense” - mr birling
• ”a man has to mind his own business and look after himself” - mr birling
• ”it’s my duty to keep labour costs down” - mr birling
• ”if you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth” - mr birling
• ”probably a socialist or some sort of crank” - mr birling
• ”why you hysterical young fool - get back - or i’ll” - mr birling
• ”now look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all. and they can’t even take a joke” - mr birling
• ”as it happened more than eighteen months ago - nearly two years ago - obviously it had nothing to do with the wretched girl’s suicide” - mr birling
• ”i can’t accept any responsibility” - mr birling
• ”if we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody… it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?” - mr birling
• ”i’ve got to cover this up as soon as i can” - mr birling