Quotes Flashcards
The one wanted me have, look beauty-sheila
Oh - Gerald - you’ve got it - is it the one you wanted me to have?.. Look mummy, isn’t a beauty!
Never agian-sheila
I’ll never, never, do it to anybody again
Cheap labour, people-sheila
They’re not cheap labour, they’re people
Aren’t same people sat down dinner-sheila
You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here.
Drove girl to suicide-sheila
Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide.
Dont seem learnt-sheila
you don’t seem to have learnt anything
You two being childish
It’s you two who are being childish – trying not to face the facts.
heavy looking, portentous… provincial-Stage direction mr birling
A heavy looking, rather portentous man… provincial in this speech
Titanic-Mr Birling
unsinkable, absolutely, unsinkable
Community, bees in hive-Mr Birling
community and all that nonsense … mixed up together like bees in a hive
Cant accept-MR Birling
I can’t accept any responsibility
Duty labour costs-Mr birling
Well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down
headed buisness-MR birling
hard-headed, practical man of business.
Try for wages- Eric
Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?
Try for highest- Eric
We try for the highest possible prices.
In state when chap nasty- Eric
I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty
Killed-Eric
You killed her!
Dead We killed her-Eric
The girl’s dead and we all killed her
Insisted-eric
I insisted - it seems
More upset than probbably appear-Gerald
I’m rather more - upset … than I probably appear
Nonsense-Gerald
It may have all been nonsense
Ask earth take- inspector
It’s better to ask for the earth than take it
Events-inspector
A chain of events.
Easy-inspector
‘if you’re easy with me, I’m easy with you