Mr Birling

• "heavy-looking portentous man" - act 1
• "lower costs and higher prices" - act 1
• "hard-headed business man" - act 1
• "the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense" - act 1
• "a man has to make his own way" - act 1
• "have a glass of port - or a little whiskey?" - act 1
• "you're new, aren't you?" - act 1
• "I can't accept any responsibility" - act 1
• "there is nothing scandalous" - act 1
• "nothing to do with the wretched girls suicide" - act 1
• "he's admitted he was responsible for that girls condition" - act 3