An Inspecto Calls Flashcards
Quote 1t
‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’ … ‘rather provincial in his speech’
Quote 2
‘Giving us the port Edna?’
Quote 3
‘You ought to like this port, Gerald. As a matter of fact, Finchley told me it’s the same port your father gets from him.’
Quote 4
‘we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices. ’
Quote 5
‘Sheila’s a lucky girl - and I think you’re a pretty fortunate young man too, Gerald’
Quote 6
‘Are you listening, Sheila? This concerns you too. And after all I don’t often make speeches at you-‘
Quote 7
‘Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war.’
Quote 8
‘I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’
Quote 9
‘The Titanic- she sails next week’-‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
Quote 10
‘Let’s say, in 1940- you might be having a little party like this - your sons and daughters might be getting engaged.’
Mind his own business?
‘A man has to mind his own business and look after himself’
Knighthood
‘There’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honours List.’ Just a knighthood, of course’
Police Court
‘So as long as we behave ourselves don’t get into the police court or start a scandal -eh?’
Lord Mayor
‘I was an alderman for years – and Lord Mayor two years ago – and I’m still on the Bench.’
Employees and discharged
‘She was one of my employees and then I discharged her.’
