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“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

— Agatha Christie

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I…

— Paul Auster

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

— Norma Shearer

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

— Calvin Trillin

“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology…

— Judith Butler

What makes Butler truly unique is the people that we have been so blessed to work with.

— Brad Stevens

“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations…

— Terry Eagleton

“Is this the part where you tell me he’ll come around?” “Hell, no.” At least Phil Butler was an honest man. Five”

— S.E. Jakes

I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.

— David Wenham

“There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of…

— Eoin Colfer

I am much closer to the Butler side of the family, which is on mother's side, from where I get my middle name. My…

— Jason Butler Harner

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Rob Kardashian

“No one had ever left me so simultaneously relaxed and knotted up all at once (except maybe Rhett Butler, which doesn't count since he's…

— Cecily White