English AIC (Mr Birling Quotes)

Cards (26)

  • Mr Birling "The Germans don't want war."
  • Mr Birling "The famous younger generation who knows it all. And they can't even take a joke."
  • Mr Birling "Look, Inspector - I'd give thousands - yes thousands."
  • Mr Birling "(excitedly) By Jingo. A fake"
  • Mr Birling "(angrily to Eric) You're the one I blame for this"
  • Mr Birling "This is one of the happiest nights of my life"
  • Mr Birling "I can't accept any responsibility"
  • Mr Birling "Probably a socialist or some sort of crank"
  • Mr Birling "for lower costs and higher prices"
  • Mr Birling "They were averaging about 22 and 6... they wanted the rates raised so they could average about 25 shillings a week."
  • Mr Birling "It's my duty to keep labour costs down"
  • Mr Birling "Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"
  • Mr Birling "A hard-headed practical man of business"
  • Mr Birling "Just a knighthood of course"
  • Mr Birling "Who here will suffer from that more than I will."
  • Mr Birling "Nothing to do with you Sheila, run along."
  • Mr Birling "We play golf together sometimes up at West Brumley."
  • Mr Birling "We can't let these Bernard Shaws and H.G wellses do all the talking."
  • Mr Birling "There must have been something wrong"
  • Mr Birling "There'll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere - except of course Russia, which will always be behind hand naturally."
  • Mr Birling "(angrily) I really must protest -"
  • Mr Birling "Then she got herself into trouble there I suppose?"
  • Mr Birling "Makes all the difference"
  • Mr Birling "Look - there's nothing mysterious - or scandalous - about this business"
  • Mr Birling "heavy looking, rather portentous man."
  • Mr Birling "A man has to mind his own business and look after himself."