Mr Arthur Birling

• "(sharply)Sheila take your mother along to the drawing room-"
• "(angrily)I don't want any of that talk from you"
• "I've got to cover this up as soon as I can"
• "You damned fool - why didn't you come to me when you found yourself in this mess?"
• "Why, you hysterical young fool"
• "Look, Inspector, I'd give thousands - yes thousands - "
• "(angrily to Eric) You're the one I blame for this"
• "I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours list"
• "There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did"
• "Haven't I already said there'll be a public scandal - unless we're lucky"
• "Well, if he wasn't, it matters a devil of a lot. Makes all the difference"
• "Any more of that and you leave this room"
• "(angrily) That's comic, that is, coming from you"
• "Why you all had to go letting everything come out like that, beats me"
• "Probably a socialist or some sort of crank"
• "If you ask me, he behaved in a very peculiar and suspicious manner"
• "(excitedly) By jingo! A fake!"
• "In fact, it makes all the difference"
• "If you've nothing more sensible than that to say, Sheila you'd better keep quiet"
• "Some fathers I know would have kicked you out of the house anyhow by this time"
• "The whole damned thing can have been a piece of bluff"
• "(triumphantly) There you are! Proof positive ...... nothing but an elaborate sell"
• "I'd a special reason for not wanting any public scandal just now"
• "We've been had, that's all"
• "Well, go to bed then, and don't stand there being hysterical"
• "The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke"