AIC

• Mr Birling: ''unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable''
• Mr Birling: ''you'll hear some people say that war's inevitable. And to that I say – fiddlesticks!''
• Mr Birling: ''your engagement to Sheila means a tremendous lot to me… You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted''
• Mr Birling: ''perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices''
• Mr Birling: 'Just a knighthood, of course''
• Mr Birling: ''clothes mean something quite different to a woman… a sort of sign or token of their self-respect''
• Mr Birling: ''as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense''
• Mr Birling: ''obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girl's suicide''
• Mr Birling: ''Still, I can't accept any responsibility''
• Mr Birling: ''(furious, intervening) Why, you hysterical young fool – get back – or I'll–''
• Mr Birling: ''(pointing to Eric and Sheila) Now look at the pair of them – the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke-''
• Mrs Birling: ''(reproachfully) Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things''
• Mrs Birling: ''What an expression Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!''
• Mrs Birling: ''No, of course not. He's only a boy''
• Mrs Birling: ''Girls of that class-''
• Mrs Birling: ''As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!''
• Mrs Birling: ''She was giving herself ridiculous airs[…]that were simply absurd in a girl in her position''
• Mrs Birling: ''(severely) You're behaving like a hysterical child tonight''
• Sheila: ''(half serious, half playful) Yes – except all last summer when you never came near me, and I wondered what had happened to you''
• Sheila: ''you're squiffy'/'I'm not''
• Sheila: ''But these girls aren't cheap labour – they're people''
• Sheila: ''I felt rotten about it at the time and now I feel a lot worse''
• Sheila: ''Why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows''
• Sheila: ''Gerald, I think you'd better take this with you. (She hands him the ring)''
• Sheila: ''(with sudden alarm) Mother – stop – stop!''
• Sheila: ''And Eric's absolutely right. And it's the best thing any one of us has said tonight''
• Sheila: ''And probably between us we killed her''
• Sheila: ''No. Not yet. It's too soon. I must think' (when Gerald tries to give her back the ring)'
• Eric: ''(Eric suddenly guffaws)…Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh''
• Eric: ''you're squiffy'/'I'm not''
• Eric: ''(involuntarily) My God!' (his first reaction when he hears about Eva's suicide)'
• Eric: ''He could. He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck''
• Eric: ''I left 'em talking about clothes again… Women are potty about them''
• Eric: ''I insisted – it seems' (about going into Eva's lodgings)'
• Eric: ''I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty, and I threatened to make a row''
• Eric: ''I wasn't in love with her or anything…she was pretty and a good sport''
• Eric: ''I hate these fat old tarts around the town – the ones I see some of your respectable friends with''
• Eric: ''I insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going – until she refused to take any more''
• Eric: ''You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble. That's why.''
• Eric: ''(shouting) And I say the girl's dead and we all helped to kill her – and that's what matters''