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These quotes are from Act 1 of An inspector calls ☎️🧐
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Mr Birling in the stage directions
“prosperous manufacturer”
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Mr Birling’s character in the stage directions
“heavy-looking, rather portentous man”
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Mr Birling to Eric when making his engagement speech
“you’re just the kind of son-in-law I have always wanted”
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Mr Birling talking about (Croft limited) and (Birling and company) merging companies
“lower costs and higher prices”
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Mr Birling tells Sheila off for looking at her engagement ring and not listening to him speak
“are you listening, Sheila? This concerns you too. And after all I don’t often make speeches at you-“
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Mr Birling- There’s a good deal of silly talk about these days- but …
“I speak as a hard-headed business man”
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Mr Birling talking about miners striking
“there’s a lot of wild talk about a possible labour trouble in the near future”
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Mr Birling- and the interests of capital are- properly protected…
“and were in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity”
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Mr Birling talks about war
“some people say that war’s inevitable. And to that I say fiddlesticks”
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Mr Birling talking about what is at stake
“there’s too much at stake these days. Everything to lose and nothing to gain by war”
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Mr Birling gets infuriated by Eric about war and tells him off
“just let me finish,Eric. You’ve a lot to learn yet”
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Mr Birling- and I say there…
“and I say there isn’t a chance of war”
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Mr Birling - Titanic
“unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable”
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Mr Birling- silly little…
“silly little war scares”
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Mr Birling- but you…
“but you youngsters just remember what I said”
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Mr Birling
Knight🥷
“just a knighthood, of course”
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Mr Birling when Eric comes back to the table after speaking with Mrs Birling and they talk about women and clothes
“clothes mean something quiet different to a women…well, a sort of sign or token of their self-respect”
Mr Birling- I don’t want to lecture…
“I don’t want to lecture you two young fellows again”
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Mr Birling - a man…
“a man has to make his own way- has to look after himself- and his family too”
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Mr Birling 🐝
“you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive- a community and all that nonsense”
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Mr Birling learns about Eva’s death
(rather impatiently) “yes, yes horrid business. But I don’t understand why you should come here inspector”
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Mr Birling finds out Eva Smith worked at his company
“we’ve several hundred young women there, y’know, and they keep changing”
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Mr Birling about the responsibility of Eva’s death
“still, I can’t accept any responsibility”
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