Arthur Birling

• "It's one of the happiest nights of my life"
• "When Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices"
• "And I speak as a hard headed business man"
• "The Germans don't want war. Nobody wants war, except some half civilised folks in the Falklands. There's too much at stake these days. Everything to loose and nothing to gain by war"
• "And unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
• "a world that'll have forgotten all these capital versus labour agitations and all these silly little war scares. "
• "We hard headed business men must say something sometime"
• "I gather there's a very good chance of a knighthood - so long as we behave ourselves, don't get into the police court or start a scandal"
• "I have an idea that your mother - Lady Croft - while she doesn't object to my girl - feels you might have done better for yourself socially"
• "You've got to remember my boy that clothes mean something quite different to a woman"
• "You don't know what some of these boys get up to nowadays. More money to spend and time to spare than I had"
• "A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too of course"
• "You'd think everybody has to look after everyone else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense"
• "Special occasion. And feeling contented, for once, I wanted you to have the benefit of my experience"
• "But it doesn't convey anything to me. And I don't see where I come into this"
• "Well, we've several hundred young women there, and they keep changing"
• "Still I can't accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward wouldn't it"
• "Well it's my duty to keep labour costs down"
• "She'd had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go"
• "If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the Earth"
• "It's time you learn to face a few responsibilities"
• "(angrily) Why the devil do you want to go upsetting the child like that?


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