Butlers Quotes - Page 2

• If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lying, Love You, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Moving, Religion

  Samuel Butler (2013). “Erewhon Revisited”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Wind, Crisis, Handkerchiefs

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.673, Hamilton Books

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• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, God, Im Sorry

  Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Dining, Meals

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• In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

  Fannie Flagg

  War, Believe, Two

  Fannie Flagg (2012). “Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man”, p.58, Random House

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• 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

  Husband, Divorce, America

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• Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Want, Marrying

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.156, Hamilton Books

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• I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

  Joan Collins

  Light, Pairs, Costumes

  "It was a show-stopping photo - Joan Collins still every inch the glamourpuss. But, she says, it ain't easy to look agelessly fab". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 11, 2013.

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• Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Enemy, Events

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• I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

  Eoin Colfer

  Scary, Sound

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• I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.

  Gail Carriger

  Men, People, Missing

  Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, People, Poison

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• Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Yankees, Helping

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• Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre." Myles: "In Paris." Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot attract the waiter's attention. What do you do?" Beckett: "Umm...tell Butler to jump-jump-jump on his head?" Myles: "I agree with simple-toon." Artemis: "No! You simply raise one finger and say clearly 'ici, garcon.'" Beckett: "Itchy what?

  Eoin Colfer

  Brother, Simple, Paris

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• Right.” Sadie looked dazed. “You’ve got a monkey butler. Why not?

  Rick Riordan

  Why Not, Monkeys, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Gansey leaned back, head thrown to the side, drunken and silly with happiness. "I love this car," he said, loud enough to be heard over the engine. "I should buy four more of them. I'll just open the door of one to fall in to the other. One can be a living room, one can be my kitchen, I'll sleep in one..." "And the fourth? Butler's pantry?" Blue shouted. "Don't be so selfish. Guest room.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Selfish, Silly, Fall

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• Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.

  Robert Aickman

  Men, World, Machines

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• Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  New Experiences, Mind, Rhett Butler

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• I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

  Hope Solo

  Writing, Ipods, Groups

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• I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.

  Jill Scott

  Wind, California, Joy

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• My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.

  Adam Petty

  Kings, Dad, Grandfather

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