Butlers Quotes - Page 3

• Gerard Butler is like a big kid, he's so nice.

  Madeline Carroll

  Nice, Kids, Bigs

  "Meet Newcomer (and Flipped Star!) Madeline Carroll". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 31, 2010.

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• As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?

  Margaret Hughes

  Home, Usual, Fool

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• In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

  Adam Kirsch

  Appreciation, Teaching, Reading

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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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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• Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

  Gail Carriger

  Agreement, Nocturnal, Realizing

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team

  Eoin Colfer

  Team, World, Fowl

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• Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die," Blake snarled.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Hands, Doe

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• Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

  Eloisa James

  School, Wish, Together

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• A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

  Jasper Fforde

  Should, Employers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

  Eoin Colfer

  Different, Would Be, Use

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, - and saying in a loud voice: 'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Suicide, Voice, Iron

  "Like it was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge". Book by Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 255, 1981.

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• I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

  Eoin Colfer

  Scary, Sound

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• If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

  Rob Kardashian

  Winning, Fire, Singers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.

  Don Hewitt

  Real, Moving, Hero

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• I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?

  Eoin Colfer

  Knives, Two, Wire

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• Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

  Lynn Fontanne

  Two, Water, Tea

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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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• 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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• 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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