Quotes + Analysis Flashcards
First quote for Mr Birling
All mixed up like bees in a hive
Act 1
Second quote for Mr Birling
Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
Act 1
Third quote for Mr Birling
The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke-[Telephone rings sharply]
Act 3 = the last line by Mr Birling in the play
Fourth quote for Mr Birling
You! You don’t seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List.
Act 3
Fifth quote for Mr Birling
a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-and-[We hear the sharp ring of a front doorbell.]
First quote for Mrs Birling
As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse any money
Act 2
Second quote for Mrs Birling
You know, of course, that my husband was Lord Mayor only two years ago and that he’s still a magistrate
Act 2
Third quote for Mrs Birling
She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position
Act 2
Fourth quote for Mrs Birling
No, of course not. He’s only a boy
Act 2
Fifth quote for Mrs Birling
I used my influence to have it refused
Act 2
First quote for Sheila
[Slowly, carefully now] You musn’t try to build up a sort of wall between us and that girl
Act 2
Second quote for Sheila
I tell - whoever that Inspector was, it was anything but a joke
Act 3
Third quote for Sheila
[laughs rather hysterically] Why-you fool- he knows. Of course, he knows.
Act 1
Fourth quote for Sheila
But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people
Act 1
Fifth quote for Sheila
Now I feel really engaged
Act 1