english literature paper 2

• Mr. Birling: '"A man has to make his own way—has to look after himself—and his family too, of course, when he has one—and so long as he does that he won't come to much harm."'
• Mr. Birling: '"The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke—"'
• Mr. Birling: '"The Germans don't want war. Nobody wants war, except some half-civilized folks in the Balkans."'
• Mr. Birling: '"We employers at last are coming together to see that our interests—and the interests of Capital—are properly protected."'
• Mr. Birling: '"I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business."'
• Mr. Birling: '"Lower costs and higher prices."'
• Mr. Birling: '"Community and all that nonsense."'
• Mr. Birling: '"Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable."'
• Mr. Birling: '"I don't see much nonsense about it when a girl goes and kills herself."'
• Mr. Birling: '"I don't believe it. I won't believe it!"'
• Mrs. Birling: '"I accept no blame for it at all. [...] I'm sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. But I accept no blame for it at all."'
• Mrs. Birling: '"Girls of that class."'
• Mrs. Birling: '"I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him."'
• Mrs. Birling: '"She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position."'
• Mrs. Birling: '"As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!"'
• Mrs. Birling: '"I don't suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide."'
• Mrs. Birling: '"Sheila, I simply don't understand your attitude."'
• Mrs. Birling: '"I've done nothing wrong – and you know it."'
• Mrs. Birling: '"He's only a boy."'
• Sheila Birling: '"But these girls aren't cheap labour—they're people."'
• Sheila Birling: '"I behaved badly too."'
• Sheila Birling: '"I'm ashamed of you."'
• Sheila Birling: '"So I'm really responsible?"'
• Sheila Birling: '"I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse."'
• Sheila Birling: '"Why – you fool – he knows."'
• Sheila Birling: '"I remember what he said, how he looked, and what he made me feel. Fire and blood and anguish."'
• Eric Birling: '"You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble."'
• Eric Birling: '"I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty."'
• Eric Birling: '"I wasn't in love with her or anything – but I liked her – she was pretty and a good sport."'
• Eric Birling: '"And I say the girl's dead and we all helped to kill her – and that's what matters."'
• Eric Birling: '"Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?"'
• Eric Birling: '"You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can't."'
• Eric Birling: '"My God—I'm not likely to forget."'
• Eric Birling: '"Well, I don't blame you. But don't forget I'm ashamed of you as well – yes both of you."'
• Eric Birling: '"You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I wasn't telling you a complete lie."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I became at once the most important person in her life."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I didn't feel about her as she felt about me."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I don't come into this suicide business."'
• Gerald Croft: '"I did keep a girl last summer. I've admitted it."'