AIC Flashcards
As a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he’s about - i say, you can ignore all this silly pessimist talk.
-Mr Birling, Act 1
Titanic - Unsinkable
-Mr Birling, Act 1
So long as we behave ourselves, don’t get into the police court or start a scandal - eh?
-Mr Birling, (Act 1)
You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.
-Mr Birling, (Act 1)
A few German Officers talking nonsense.
Mr Birling, (Act 1)
Still, I can’t accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?
Mr Birling (Act 1)
Rubbish! If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.
Mr Birling (Act 1)
(Angrily) Inspector, i’ve told you before, I don’t like the tone nor the way you’re handling this inquiry. And I don’t propose to give you much rope.
Mr Birling, (Act 2)
(Angrily) Yes, and you don’t realize yet all you’ve done. Most of this is bound to come out. There’ll be a public scandal.
Mr Birling, (Act 3)
(Angrily) Drop that. There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did.
Mr Birling, (Act 3)
That fellow obviously didn’t like us. He was prejudiced from the start. Probably a socialist or some sort of crank - he talked like one. And then, instead of standing up to him, you let him bluff you into talking about your private affairs.
Mr Birling, (Act 3)
They might. But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.
Inspector Goole, (Act 1)
(Steadily) That’s more or less what I was thinking earlier tonight when I was in the infirmary looking at what was left of Eva Smith. A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it.
Inspector Goole, (Act 1)
Sometimes there isn’t much difference as you think. Often, if it was left to me, I wouldn’t know where to draw the line between respectable citizens and criminals.
Inspector Goole, (Act 1)
(Harshly) Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.
Inspector Goole, (Act 1)
You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?
Inspector Goole, (Act 2)
(Sternly to them both) You see, we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt. (Act 2)
Inspector Goole, (Act 2)
(Massively) Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.
Inspector Goole, (Act 2)
(To Mrs B) I think you did something terribly wrong - and that you’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it.
Inspector Goole, (Act 2)
Never forget it. (He looks from one to the other carefully.) But then I don’t think you ever will.
Inspector Goole, (Act 3)
“Look, Inspector - I’d give thousands - yes, thousands”
Mr Birling, (Act 3)
“They’d soon be asking for the
earth.”
Mr Birling, (Act 1)
