Mr Birling Quotes from An Inspector Calls You Need to Know

Explore the top 10 Mr Birling quotes from An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley. Ideal for GCSE English Literature revision and understanding key themes like capitalism and social responsibility.Mr Birling An Inspector Calls GCSE English English Literature Mr Birling quotes J.B. Priestley

“The way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else.”

“A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own.”

“Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.”

“If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.”

“I speak as a hard-headed business man.”

“I speak as a hard-headed business man.”

“The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war.”

“There’ll be a public scandal – unless we’re lucky.”

“Probably a socialist or some sort of crank.”

“There’s every excuse for what your mother and I did.”

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