Mr Birling

• 'unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable'
• 'the german's don't want war'
• 'heavy, portentous man in his middle fifties'
• 'hard-headed man of business'
• 'a man has to make his own way'
• 'cheap labour'
• 'she had a lot to say, far too much'
• 'she had to go, of course'
• 'still, i can't accept any responsibility'
• 'mixed up like bees in a hive'
• 'the whole story's just a lot of moonshine'
• 'public scandal'
• 'the famous younger generation that know it all'
• 'for lower costs and higher prices'
• 'there's every excuse for what your mother and i did'
• 'there'll be a public scandal'
• 'i'd give thousands, yes, thousands'
• 'i've got to cover this up as soon as i can'
• 'probably a socialist or some sort of crank'
• 'community and all that nonsense'
• 'just a knight-hood'