Mr Birling Quotes Flashcards
Mr Birling
“I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business.”
Mr Birling
‘You’ll hear some people say war is inevitable … fiddlesticks!’
Mr Birling
‘The Titanic - she sails next week…and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.’
Mr Birling
“I gather there’s a very good chance of knighthood.”
Mr Birling
“A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too, of course.”
Mr Birling
“(rather impatiently) Horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here.”
Mr Birling
“you’d think everybody else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.”
Mr Birling
“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”
Mr Birling
“there’s every excuse for what your mother and I did.”
Mr Birling
“Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank.”
Mr Birling
“Now look at the pair of them- the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-“
