1. Birling Quotes Flashcards
Beginning stage directions
‘prosperous manufacturer’
‘at the table, with ARTHUR BIRLING at one end’
‘heavy looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties’
Act 1 - cook
‘Tell cook from me’
Act 1 - pity
‘It’s a pity Sir George and – er – Lady Croft can’t be with us’
Act 1 - son-in-law
(TO GERALD) ‘You’re just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted’
Act 1 - bigger
costs
‘Crofts Limited are both older and bigger than Birling and Company’
‘lower costs and higher prices’
Act 1 - hard-headed
‘hard-headed business man’
Act 1 - bees
‘as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense’
Act 1 - mind
‘a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own – and—
We hear a sharp ring of the front doorbell
A1 - mysterious
‘Look, there’s nothing mysterious – or scandalous’
A1 - duty
‘it’s my duty to keep labour costs down’
A1 - friend
“Perhaps I ought to warn you that that [the Chief Constable is] and old friend of mine. We play golf together.”
A3 - scandal
‘There’ll be a public scandal … and who here will suffer for that more than I will?’
A3 - different
(jovially) ‘But the whole thing’s different now?’
A1 - DI
Germans
‘The Germans don’t want war’
A1 - DI unsinkable
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
