Quotes

Question 1

arthur birling

Answer 1

-“Arthur Burling is a heavy looking rather portentous man(…) With fairly easy manners”
-“And I’m talking as a hardheaded, practical man of business”
-“a man has to mind his own business and look after yourself and his own”
-“all mixed up like bees in a hive”
-unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Question 2

mrs sybil birling

Answer 2

-“Unlike the other three, I did nothing, I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear investigation”
-“As if I girl of that sort would ever refuse any money”
-“Mrs Burling’s wife is about 50 rather cold woman, and her husband social superior”
-“i don’t believe it,i wont believe it”

Question 3

eric birling quotes

Answer 3

-“The moneys not the important thing.it’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters”
-“And I didn’t even remember That’s the hellish thing. Oh - my god! - how stupid it all is”
-“[…] Well, I was in a state when a chap easily turns nasty,I threatened to make a row”
-“Eric is in his early 20s, not quite at ease half shy half assertive”

Question 4

shelia birling quotes

Answer 4

-“But these girls aren’t cheap labour, their people”
-“(Rather wildly, with laugh) no he’s giving us the rope -so that we’ll hang yourself”
-“You mustn’t try to build up a sort of wall between us, and that girl”

Question 5

gerald birling quotes

Answer 5

-“Everything’s all right now Shelia (holds up the ring) what about this ring?”
-“She didn’t blame me at all.I wish to god she had now”
-“Hear,hear! And I think my father would agree to that”
-“the easy,well bred young man about town”

Question 6

inspecter

Answer 6

-“Millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us”
-“We are members of one body, we are responsible for each other”
-“They will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish”