aic

• ‘I can’t accept any responsibility’ (1)
• “lower costs and higher prices.” (1)
• ‘A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too’ (1)
• ‘Well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down.’ (1)
• Is there any reason why my wife should answer questions from you, Inspector? (2)
• 'You! You don’t seem to care about anything…I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List.’ (2)
• ‘I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can’ (3)
• ‘This makes a difference, y’know. In fact, it makes all the difference’ (3)
• ‘When you’re married, you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. You’ll have to get used to that’
• ‘Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility’
• ‘I’m very sorry… She had only herself to blame’
• ‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
• ‘But I didn’t know it was you’
• ‘I was the only one who didn’t give in to him.’
• “but these girls aren’t’ just cheap labour – they’re people”
• “I’ll never ever do it again to anybody”
• ‘Is it the one you wanted me to have… now I really feel engaged’
• ‘Mummy – isn’t it a beauty?’
• ‘You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here’
• ‘Mother, I think that was cruel and vile.’
• [Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive]
• ‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?’
• ‘I wasn’t in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and a good sport’.
• ‘You killed her! She came to you to protect me – and you turned her away… your own grandchild – you killed them both – damn you’
• ‘I don’t give a damn’
• ‘I think my father would agree to that, too.’
• ‘I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me.’
• “Everything’s alright now Sheila”
• ‘A chain of events’
• ‘Public men, Mr Birling, have their responsibilities as well as their privileges’
• ‘There’ll be plenty of time, when I’ve gone, for you all to adjust your family relationships’
• ‘Each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it’
• ‘We are members of one body. We are responsible for one another’
• ‘If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’
• "As if she was an animal, a thing, not a person"
• “There are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us"
• "She'd had a lot to say-far too much-so she had to go"