Mr Birling Quotes

Question 1

Finchley

Answer 1

Finchley told me it’s exactly the same port your father gets from him

Question 2

purple-faced

Answer 2

I’m not a purple-faced old man

Question 3

do you?

Answer 3

Sheila: ‘But then you don’t know all about port - do you?

Question 4

Friendly

Answer 4

Friendly rivals

Question 5

lower

Answer 5

lower costs and higher prices

Question 6

good time

Answer 6

you’ll be marrying at a very good time

Question 7

Hard-headed

Answer 7

Hard-headed business man

Question 8

German

Answer 8

a few German officers have had too much to drink

Question 9

knighthood

Answer 9

a very good chance of a knighthood- so long as we behave ourselves, don’t get into the police court or start a scandal

Question 10

Clothes

Answer 10

Clothes mean something quite different to a woman. Not just something to wear and not only something to make ‘em look prettier, but a sort of sign or token of their self-respect.

Question 11

own way

Answer 11

A man has to make his own way—has to look after himself—and his family

Question 12

bees

Answer 12

bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense

Question 13

tone

Answer 13

marked with a change of tone’ ‘I’m sorry

Question 14

different

Answer 14

But the whole thing’s different now