Mr Birling Quotes

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Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man…rather provincial in his speech

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Giving us the port Edna?

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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

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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

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Sheila’s a lucky girl,-and I think you’re a pretty fortunate young man too

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Are you listening Sheila? This concerns you too. And after all I don’t often make speeches at you

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Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war

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I’m talking as a hard headed practical man of business. And I say there isn’t a chance of war

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The Titanic- she sails next week-unsinkabbe, absolutely unsinkable

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Let’s say, in 1940- you might be having a little party like this - your sons and daughters might be getting engaged.