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• Mr Birling: '"We were paying the usual rates and if they didn't like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else".'
• Sheila: '"But these girls aren't cheap labour – they're people"'
• Gerald: '"young and fresh and charming".'
• Gerald: '"perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together"'
• Mr Birling: '"a girl of that sort would ever refuse money"'
• Sheila: '"I'd persuade mother to close our account with them [if Eva isn't fired]"'
• 'It was the real steady job she had'
• Sheila: '"a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited."'
• Sheila: '"really responsible."'
• Sheila: '"I don't understand about you."'
• Sheila: '"pretend that nothing much has happened."'
• Sheila: '"It frightens me the way you talk:"'
• Sheila: '"we are all to blame"'
• Sheila: '"except for all last summer, when you never came near me"'
• Sheila: '"so I'm really responsible?"'
• Sheila: '"between us we killed her".'
• Sheila: '"You and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here."'
• Sheila: '"Mother – stop – stop!"'
• Sheila: '"The point is, you don't seem to have learnt anything"'
• Sheila: '"Fire and blood and anguish"'
• Gerald: '"an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred man-about-town."'
• Mr Birling: '"You're just the kind of son in law I always wanted"'
• Gerald: '"We're respectable citizens and not criminals"'
• Gerald: '"because I was sorry for her;"'
• Gerald: '"I'm rather more upset by this business that I probably appear to be"'
• Eric: '"You're squiffy"'
• Mr Birling: '"unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"'
• Mr Birling: '"The Germans don't want war"'
• "Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive."
• Eric: '"(miserably ) Could I have a drink first?"'
• Eric: '"I intended to pay it back"'
• Eric: '"You're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble"'
• Eric: '"you killed her - and the child she'd have had too - my child - your own grandchild - you killed them both - damn you"'
• Eric: '"I'm ashamed of you as well - both of you"'
• Eric: '"the fact remains that I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her."'
• Eric: '"We all did her in alright"'
• Inspector: '"massiveness, solidity and purposefulness"'
• Inspector: '"One person and one line of enquiry at a time"'
• Inspector: '"'It's my duty to ask questions."'
• Inspector: '"It's better to ask for the earth than to take it."'