Birling Memory

Question 1

‘Birling is a heavy looking rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech’

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Question 2

‘Crofts and Birling’s are no longer competing but are working together for lower costs and higher prices’

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Question 3

“A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family…cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together likes bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense’

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Question 4

‘All these silly little war scares. There’ll be peace and prosperity…we can’t let these Bernard Shaws and H.G.Wellses do all the talking. We hard-headed practical business men’

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Question 5

‘We’ve several hundred young women there, y’know, and they keep changing’

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Question 6

‘Perhaps I ought to warn you that he’s an old friend of mine. We play golf together’

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Question 7

‘(Angrily) Inspector, I’ve told you before, I don’t like your tone nor the way your handling this inquiry. And I don’t propose to give you much more rope.

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Question 8

‘(Unhappily) Look inspector - Id give thousands - yes thousands’

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Question 9

He was prejudiced from the start. Probably a socialist or some sort of crank… instead of standing up to him, you let him bluff you’

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Question 10

‘(Pointing at Eric and Sheila) now look at the pair of them - the younger generation who know it all. And they cant even take a joke.

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