GOOD MR BIRLING QUOTES

“I speak as a hard-headed businessman.”

“I have to protect my interests.”

“A man has to make his own way.”

“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”

“There’ll be a public scandal – unless we’re lucky.”

“If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward.”

“The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke.”

“We’re respectable citizens and not criminals.”

“You’ll hear some people say that war’s inevitable. And to that I say – fiddlesticks!”

“This is the way to handle things. You don’t seem to have learnt anything.”

“I say there isn’t a chance of war.”

“We do not live alone. We are responsible for each other.” BIBLE QUOTES ABOUT THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE

“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.”

“You started it. She was pretty and a good sport, and I had information from a friend of mine.”

“I can’t accept any responsibility.”

“I don’t suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide.”

“I can’t help thinking about this girl – destroying herself so horribly. And I’ve been so happy tonight.”

“If we were responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?”

“When you’re married you’ll realize that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. The time she’d have had from esthetic nonsense would have made her a great help to me.”

“I’ve told my employees they’ll be kept on at the same rates, alright?”

“You see, we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.”

“Public men, Mr. Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.”

“But the whole thing’s different now… He thinks you should go to the local infirmary.”