Mr Birling Flashcards
Likes to big himself up
“I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business”
Making fun of socialists
‘you’ll hear some people say war is Inevitable … fiddlesticks!’
Bringing up titanic
‘The Titanic – she sails next week…and unsinkable, absolutely
unsinkable.’
Knighthood
“I gather there’s a very good chance of a knighthood”
Kind of thinking about his family
“A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course”
Thinking about himself
“(rather impatiently) Horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here.”
Making fun of others
“you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense.”
Knows every police force in the area
“I was an alderman for years – and Lord Mayor two years ago – and I’m still on the Bench – so I know the Brumley police offers pretty well”
Mum and dad swiping their way out
“there’s every excuse for what your mother and I did”
Again making fun of socialism
“Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank”
Trying to look adult
“Now look at the pair of them- the famous younger generation who
know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-”
