Eric Birling Quotes

• “Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices”
• “it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”
• “He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck.”
• “I’d have let her stay"
• “Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I threatened to make a row”
• “And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the hellish thing.”
• “I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-”
• “she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was.”
• "You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in troublethat’s why.”
• “Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn you-”
• “He was our police inspector all right”
• “(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and that’s what matters-”