Mr Birling

• A man must mind his business, look after himself and his own
• Well it's my duty to keep labour costs down
• unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
• there isn't a chance of war
• perhaps we look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but working together- for lower costs and higher prices
• But with the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive
• (rather impatiently) Yes, yes. Horrid business. But I don't understand why you should come here, Inspector
• Look- there's nothing mysterious- or scandalous - about this business- at least not so far as I'm concerned
• If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth
• Perhaps I ought to warn you that he's an old friend of mine, and that i see him fairly frequently. We play golf together sometimes up at the West Bromley
• The girl was causing trouble in the works. I was quite justified
• I've got to cover this up as soon as I can
• (to eric) you're the one i blame for this
• Nothing much has happened!
• He was prejudiced from the start. Probable a socialist or some sort of crank - he talked like one
• The whole dammed thing can have been a piece of bluff
• Well isn't it? We've been had
• you're just the kind of son in law i've always wanted