“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody.” - Sheila
“The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything” - Sheila
“But I accept no blame for it at all.” - Mrs Birling
Mr Birling - “I can’t accept any responsibility.
Mr Birling - “Now you three young people, just listen to this - and remember what I’m telling you now,”
“I remember what he said, how he looked, and what he made me feel. Fire and blood and anguish. And it frightens me the way you talk, and I can’t listen to any more of it,” - Sheila
Mrs Birling - “Please don’t contradict me like that,”
"But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people" - Sheila
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!” - Mrs Birling
"The Germans don't want war" Mr Birling
“There’ll be a public scandal… and who here will suffer for that more than I will?” - Mr Birling
“I know I’m to blame – and I’m desperately sorry” - Sheila
Mr Birling - “We don’t guess - we’ve had experience - and we know,”
Mr Birling - “Some people say that war’s inevitable. And to that I say - fiddlesticks!” and “I say there isn’t a chance of war,”
'Now look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke' - Mr Birling
“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out." - Eric
“It frightens me the way you talk:” - Sheila
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices,” - Eric