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English (AIC) (Mr Birling (Quotes (Act 1) (Pg 1: ‘Arthur Birling is a…
English (AIC)
Mr Birling
Quotes (Act 1)
Pg 1: ‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’
Pg 4: Capitalism, Selfish ‘Now you have brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices. ’
Pg 6: 'Are you listening, Sheila? This concerns you too. And after all I don’t often make speeches at you-'
Pg 6: Naive, Capitalism ‘Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war.’
Pg 7: Dismissive 'I'm talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn't a chance of war.'
Pg 7: Dramatic Irony ‘The titanic- she sails next week’-‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
Stubborn, Capitalism 'man has to mind his own business and look after himself.'
Pg 8: Arrogance, Showing off 'There's a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honours List.' Just a knighthood, of course'-'But it’s a bit too early for that. So don’t say anything.'
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Pg 14: ‘I can't accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward'
Pg 15: 'We were paying the usual rates and if they didn't like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else. It's a free country, I told them.'
Pg 15: Capitalist View 'Well, it’s my duty to keep labour costs down, and if I’d agreed to this demand for a new rate we’d have added about twelve per cent to our labour costs.'
Mr Birling
Quotes (Act 2)
Pg 45: '(dubiously) I must say, Sybil, that when this comes out at the inquest, it isn’t going to do us much good. The Press might easily take it up-'
Pg 41: '(angrily, to Inspector) Look here, I’m not going to have this, Inspector. You’ll apologise at once.'
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