Key Quotes - Mr Birling

Question 1

I’m talking as a hard-headed …

Answer 1

I’m talking as a hard headed practical man of business

Question 2

You’ll hear some people say war is …

Answer 2

You’ll hear some people say war is inevitable … fiddlesticks!

Question 3

The Titanic - she sails next week …

Answer 3

The Titanic - she sails next week … and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable

Question 4

I gather there’s a very good chance of a …

Answer 4

I gather there’s a very good chance of a … knighthood

Question 5

A man has to make his own way - has to …

Answer 5

A man has to make his own way - has to … look after himself - and his family too, of course

Question 6

(Rather impatiently) horrid business. But …

Answer 6

(Rather impatiently) horrid business. But … I don’t understand why you should come here

Question 7

You’d think everybody has to look far everybody else, as if …

Answer 7

You’d think everybody has to look far everybody else, as if we were all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense

Question 8

I was an alderman for years, and …

Answer 8

I was an alderman for years, and … and Lord Mayor two years ago - and I’m still on the bench - so I know the Bromley police officers pretty well

Question 9

There’s every excuse …

Answer 9

There’s every excuse … for what your mother and I did

Question 10

Probably a socialist …

Answer 10

Probably a socialist … or some sort of crank

Question 11

Now look at the pair of them - …

Answer 11

Now look at the pair of them - … the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can’t even take a joke