Mr birling quotes

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  • Mr Birling: '"I'm talking as a hard-headed practical man of business"'
  • Mr Birling: '"You'll hear some people say war is Inevitable … fiddlesticks!"'
  • Mr Birling: The Titanic she sails next week and is unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
  • Mr Birling: '"I gather there's a very good chance of a knighthood"'
  • Mr Birling: '"A man has to make his own way – has to look after himself – and his family too, of course"'
  • Mr Birling: '"(rather impatiently) Horrid business. But I don't understand why you should come here."'
  • Mr Birling: '"you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hivecommunity and all that nonsense."'
  • Mr Birling: I was an alderman for years -and Lord Mayor two years ago - and is still on the Bench - so I know the Brumley police offers pretty well
  • Mr Birling: '"there's every excuse for what your mother and I did"'
  • Mr Birling: '"Probably a Socialist or some sort of crank"'
  • Mr Birling: '"Now look at the pair of them- the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke-"'