Eric Birling

• "I don't know - really. Suddenly i felt I just had to laugh"
• "We'll drink their health and have done with it"
• "She's got a nasty temper sometimes - but she's not all bad"
• "What about war?"
• "You'd think a girl had never any clothes before she gets married. Women are potty about 'em"
• "Mother says we mustn't stay too long but I don't think it matters"
• "And as you were saying, dad, a man has to look after himself"
• "He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out"
• "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices"
• "You said yourself she was a good worker. I'd have let her stay"