Footman Quotes

#1. Goodbye, Lord Rohan," she said. The door to Lina's house stood open, the footman waitig patiently. "I don't expect we'll see each other again."
His smile was slow, mocking, irresistibly devilish. "Would you care to wager on that, my love?

Anne Stuart

#2. John had been a footman nearly all of his adult life. He knew decorum and appropriate behavior for his situation. But when he glanced from one twin to another, he nearly ruined his reputation and self-respect forever with...a smile.

Sarah Brazytis

#3. It took the combined efforts of Cam and George to load the grumbling, protesting Leo into the carriage. "It's like hauling five sacks of potatoes all at once," the footman said breathlessly, pushing Leo's foot safely inside the vehicle.
"The potatoes would be quieter," Cam said.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Ah, but the rich are different,' the footman said, 'they take a lot more looking after.

Kate Atkinson

#5. Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. But they are murderers, madam! I am afraid of murderers!
(Jeffery, the footman in The Pirate Next Door)

Jennifer Ashley

#7. A number of visitors called this morning,' Finchley announced with some pride. He took a tray from a waiting footman and displayed it as if it were a baby. Sure enough there was a little heap of cardboard bits, embossed with the names of nobility, acquaintances, friends and the purely curious.

Eloisa James

#8. Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.-
The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

John Bunyan

#9. Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life's classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker.

Robert B. Parker

#10. Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Amanda Eliasch

#11. A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Joseph Addison

#12. A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

Jonathan Swift

#13. Gravelip, a young, slight footman with a pocked nose and large ears, obediently gave a smile like toothache. He seemed less than delighted to have outpaced his friends in the ugliness race.

Frances Hardinge

#14. Can I help you? said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor.

Neil Gaiman

#15. Morgause laughed as she mounted her horse with some help from a footman. "I see through your protests, Merlin. You are quite amorous of me, I know it." Merlin looked like he swallowed a frog. "Lady," he said. "Wise, old lady. Please depart lest I be forced to help you depart.

K.M. Shea

#16. It wasn't the footman she was afraid of - it was those he was parroting. Alfie was the sort of dim-noll who never had his own thoughts but borrowed other people's.

Ellen Renner

#17. Laughter, I noticed a footman in old-fashioned knee breeches perched near the top of a

Sara Gruen

#18. When you see a woman in silks and sables and diamonds speak to a little errand girl or a footman or a scullery maid as though they were the dirt under her feet, you may be sure of one thing; she hasn't come a very long way from the ground herself.

Emily Post

#19. Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

Prince Andrew

#20. A footman approached bearing a tray of sparkling wine. Lord Sheffield motioned the footman away before he could offer them a glass of champagne. "Forgive me," he murmured in Amelia's ear. "I cannot wait another moment to have you in my arms.

Erica Ridley

#21. belongs. I can't afford so much as a footman to scour Saint Petersburg." "You must afford it. It is said, 'One

Gregory Maguire

#22. Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place.

P.G. Wodehouse

#23. To wheel about in one's chair to address the footman would be completely outside the pale.

Sheri Cobb South

#24. I wanted a footman with twinkly eyes like Father Christmas, not the eyes of a Viking mercenary. Footmen are supposed to be clean-shaven and pleasant-looking, and have nice names like Peter or George. But mine is scowly and growly, and his name is Drago and he has a black beard.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money

Robert Brockway

#26. No community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

#27. Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Maura Tierney

#28. I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

Tift Merritt

#29. The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Lev Grossman

#30. Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.

Georgi Y. Johnson

#31. Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

Eddie Harris

#32. While nobody plans to mess up his life, the problem is that few of us plan not to.

Andy Stanley

#33. Her love for me made me as tall as the mountains

Patrick Ness

#34. Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Parker J. Palmer

#35. Really, Mrs. Michaelson, I have been attacked by swords and cannons and guns, but I am weary still, and haven't the heart to defend myself from a soup ladle!

Heather Graham

#36. Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time ... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

Hans Matheson

#37. I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.

Mary Matalin

#38. One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body well. The more you learn to treat yourself well now, the less treatment you'll need down the road.

Harold H. Bloomfield