Mr Birling Quotes Flashcards
Me, myself and I
‘A man has to mind his own business and look after himself.’
Monarch or queen
‘There’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honours List.’ Just a knighthood, of course’
Mischief
‘So as long as we behave ourselves don’t get into the police court or start a scandal -eh?’
Government
‘I was an alderman for years - and Lord Mayor two years ago - and i’m still on the Bench.’
Lost job
‘She was one of my employees and then I discharged her.’
Loss of life
‘It has nothing whatever to do with this wretched girls suicide. Eh, Inspector?’
Passing the blame
‘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’
Manners
‘I don’t like that tone’
Generation gap
[to Eric]Look - you just keep out of this. You hadn’t even started in the works when this happened’
Not enough money to provide.
’ we were paying the usual rates and if they didn’t like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else. It’s a free country, I told them,’
Costs of labour
‘Well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down, and if i’d agreed to this demand for a new rate we’d have added about twelve per cent to our labour costs.’
Earth
‘If you don’t come down hard on these people they’d soon be asking for the earth’
Golf
‘I didn’t suppose you did’ (golf)
Sheila
‘Nothing to do with you, Sheila. Run along’
children
‘What’s the matter with that child?’
