Mrs Birling Quote Bank
“Now Arthur, I don’t think you ought to talk business on an occasion like this”
“No. Why should I?”
“We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases”
“And if I was, what business is it of yours?”
“I think it was simply a piece of gross impertinence - quite deliberate - and naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case”
“She only had herself to blame”
“I didn’t like her manner. She’d impertinently made use of our name”
“I don’t think we need to discuss it”
“She seemed to me to be not a good case - and so I used my influence”
“I’ve done nothing wrong”
“Go and look for the father of the child. It’s his responsibility”
“It wasn’t I who had her turned out of her employment - which probably began it all”
“Elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position”
“I didn’t see any reason to believe that one story should be any truer than the other”
“I accept no blame for it at all”
“If the girls death is due to anybody, then it’s due to him”
“Eric I’m absolutely ashamed of you”
“He certainly didn’t make me confess”