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An Inspector Calls - Mr Birling
- Quotes of Irony
- [about Titanic] and
unsinkable,
absolutely
unsinkable
- We've passed
the worst of it
- you'll be marrying
at a very good time
- The Germans don't want war
- Play set in 1912 -
two years before
WW1
- Nobody wants war
- silly little war scares
- let's say, 1940 - you
may be giving a
little party like this -
your son or
daughter might be
getting engaged
- Quotes of Showing Off/Bragging
(especially in front of Gerald)
- It's exactly the same
port your father gets
from him [to Gerald]
- Good dinner
too [...] Tell
cook from me
- You see I was Lord
Mayor here two years
ago when royalty
visited us.
- I've always been
regarded as a sound
useful party man
- there's a fair chance
that I might find my
way into the next
Honours List
- just a knighthood, of course
- I'm still on the Bench
- I was alderman for years
- and i speak as a hard headed businessman
- Patriarchal Society
- [to Sheila] And after all I don't often make speeches at you
- nothing to do with you Sheila, run along
- Capitalist/ Business only mindset
- and perhaps we may
look forward to the time
when Crofts and Birlings
are no longer competing
but are working together
- for lower costs and higher prices