Mr Birling - Key Quotes

    Cards (12)

    • “Heaving looking rather portentous man in his middle 50s”
    • “I speak as a hard-headed business man”
    • “I am speaking as a hard-headed practical man of business”
    • “You’ll hear some people will say war’s inevitable. And to that I say fiddlesticks”
    • ‘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]”
    • “All mixed up together like bees in a hive”
    • “unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
    • "The famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke- [telephone rings sharply]"
    • "You! You don't seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List"
    • "Possibly, but you weren't asked to come here to talk about my responsibilities"
    • "Nothing much has happened, haven't I already said there will be a public scandal?"
    • "Let's say, in 1940- you may be having a little party like this"