Top 30 Quotes About Butlers
#1. When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.
Alexandra Robbins
#2. We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#3. I am a duke, you know. If I can't perform a miracle here and there I might as well be a butler in expesive clothes." He brushed at the sleeve of his well-tailored brown coat. "And butlers don't get to dance with attractive women.
Suzanne Enoch
#4. Sheepish butlers' surgical bottle battles"
a tongue twister p.364
Haruki Murakami
#5. 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
Ben Shapiro
#6. I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'
Jessica Biel
#7. Being asked to play one of the butlers is like being picked to play for England. All you have to do is think of the great butlers from the past - Terry-Thomas in 'How To Murder Your Wife,' John Gielgud in 'Arthur' and Denholm Elliott in 'Trading Places.'
Mark Williams
#8. Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
W. Somerset Maugham
#9. The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.
Alec Guinness
#10. Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.
Eric Stoltz
#11. In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
Joachim Du Bellay
#12. Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
that the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers.
(excerpt from 'The Garrett')
Ezra Pound
#13. One-armed butlers, they can take it but they can't dish it out
Tim Vine
#14. A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
Ada Leverson
#15. By thinking of things you could understand them.
James Joyce
#16. McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.
Spiro T. Agnew
#18. 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
#21. As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin
#22. When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.
Winston Churchill
#23. Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.
Henry Kravis
#24. Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.
Frederick Lenz
#25. Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.
Ted Turner
#26. Tobacco ... is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.
Bertrand Russell
#27. It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
Winston Churchill
#29. Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
Norma Shearer
#30. It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
Eric Heiden
