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

    Night   Play   Opinion  
  • In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.

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

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

    Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA
  • I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.

    Kevin   Littles   Faces  
    Portal 2 Comes to PS3 Sony Press Conference e3 2010, www.youtube.com. June 17, 2010.
  • Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

    Men   Want   Butlers  
    Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.156, Hamilton Books
  • If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

    Lying   Love You   Wind  
    "Gone with the Wind".
  • A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

    Wall   Science   Ideas  
    'Notebooks' (1912) ch. 14
  • So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.

    Mean   Games   Mad  
  • In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly.

    Funny   Humorous   Beer  
    Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.98
  • We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.

    Lakes   Sound   Faces  
  • I wouldnt want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldnt for the life of me do the job in real life.

    Jobs   Real   Want  
  • 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.

    Source: harvardmagazine.com
  • Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

    Jobs   Father   Men  
  • 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.

    Dog   Dining   Meals  
  • Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.

    Food   Two   Giving  
    Craig Claiborne (1994). “Craig Claiborne's New York Times Food Encyclopedia”, Outlet
  • I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

    Grace   Want   Charm  
    "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.
  • I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.

    Song   Long   Fans  
  • Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

    Butlers  
    Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”
  • Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

    Husband   Men   Bed  
    James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”
  • 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?

    Knives   Two   Wire  
  • 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.

  • There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.

    Art   Sorry   Men  
    Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax
  • 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.

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

    Nice   Kids   Butlers  
    "Meet Newcomer (and Flipped Star!) Madeline Carroll". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 31, 2010.
  • Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first and secondhand accounts of her at home. The butlers come forward and give little moments, some of which you discard and some which ring somehow true and you use.

    Princess   Home   Giving  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

  • After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.

    "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
  • I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The only legitimate Lambeau Leap is celebrated by a Packer at Lambeau Field.

    Player   Years   League  
  • Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.

    Teaching   Mean   School  
    Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.25, VM eBooks
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