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Butlers Quotes By Lord Mountbatten

Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory. — Lord Mountbatten

Butlers Quotes By Spiro T. Agnew

McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate. — Spiro T. Agnew

Butlers Quotes By Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

Butlers Quotes By Eric Stoltz

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough. — Eric Stoltz

Butlers Quotes By B. Kristin McMichael

At the end of the week, you told me that you were going on a long trip, but someday you would come back and marry me."
Arianna giggled. "Did I really say that?" she asked, mortified at her bold younger self.
"Yes, but I suppose it doesn't count if you don't remember. Oh yeah, not to mention the fact you told two of the butlers, three maids, and your favorite cook you wanted to marry them also — B. Kristin McMichael

Butlers Quotes By Suzanne Enoch

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

Butlers Quotes By Ada Leverson

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. — Ada Leverson

Butlers Quotes By Tim Vine

One-armed butlers, they can take it but they can't dish it out — Tim Vine

Butlers Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham

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 butlersW. Somerset Maugham

Butlers Quotes By Haruki Murakami

Sheepish butlers' surgical bottle battles"
a tongue twister p.364 — Haruki Murakami

Butlers Quotes By Mark Steyn

Far from being tortured, the prisoners [at Guantanamo] are being handled literally with kid gloves (or simulated kid-effect gloves). The U.S. military hands each jihadist his complimentary copy of the Koran as delicately as white-gloved butlers bringing His Lordship the Times of London. It's not just unbecoming to buy in to Muslim psychoses; in the end, it's self-defeating. And our self-defeat is their surest shot at victory...Even a loser can win when he's up against a defeatist. A big chunk of Western Civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, the jihadists figure: hey, why not us? — Mark Steyn

Butlers Quotes By Julia Quinn

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

Butlers Quotes By Ted Turner

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler. — Ted Turner

Butlers Quotes By Larry Tanner

We parents are an extension of our children, not the other way around. We are their conscience until it becomes their responsibility to tell themselves what's right and necessary. We are their butlers until they are fully able to get the items they need and can clean up after themselves. We are their cheerleaders until they learn how to develop their own confidence and motivation. We are their counselors until they are able to take the lead in making the tough decisions that affect them. — Larry Tanner

Butlers Quotes By Ben Shapiro

'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

Butlers Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Butlers Quotes By Stephen L. Carter

She and her late husband, Leander Cross, a prominent surgeon of the darker nation, were, in my childhood, perhaps the leading host of the Gold Coast party circuit, a circuit my parents traveled often, because it was, in those days, what one did: glittering dinner at one house on the Friday, champagne brunch at another on the Sunday, caterers, cooks, even temporary butlers at the ready as the best of black Washington charged about in mad imitation of white people's foolishness. — Stephen L. Carter

Butlers Quotes By Alexandra Robbins

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

Butlers Quotes By Bertrand Russell

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

Butlers Quotes By Chris Kelly

Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood and before he Who. Your choices were: serving, being served, being killed by Jack the Ripper. So, the employee class made the best of it and got with the program. It was indoor work, after all. And as a wise man once observed, "You're gonna hafta serve somebody." (Bob Dylan, C. 1497-1580). And it beat mining. — Chris Kelly

Butlers Quotes By Joachim Du Bellay

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day. — Joachim Du Bellay

Butlers Quotes By Alec Guinness

The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers. — Alec Guinness

Butlers Quotes By Norma Shearer

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler. — Norma Shearer

Butlers Quotes By Eloisa James

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

Butlers Quotes By Mark Williams

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

Butlers Quotes By Winston Churchill

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it. — Winston Churchill

Butlers Quotes By Winston Churchill

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler) — Winston Churchill

Butlers Quotes By Ezra Pound

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

Butlers Quotes By Calvin Trillin

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. — Calvin Trillin

Butlers Quotes By Jessica Biel

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