ARTHUR BIRLING

• "Still I can't accept any responsibility."
• "It's my duty to keep labour costs down." - Mr Birling
• "We're in a time of steadily increasing prosperity." - Mr Birling
• "The Germans don't want war." - Mr Birling
• "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable." - Mr Birling
• "Just a knighthood, of course."
• "I gather there's a very good chance of a knighthood."
• "That a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too, of course, when he has one."
• "you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense."
• "Edna'll answer it."
• "Show him in here. Give us some more light."
• "Hard headed, practical man of business."
• "German officers talking nonsense."
• "Now, Sheila. I'm not defending him. But you must understand that a lot of young men..."
• "There's every excuse for what both your mother and I did"