Butlers Quote by Ada Leverson

“It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England. Other countries, whatever title is actually used, have only manservants. I tend to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England. Other countries, whatever title is actually used, have only manservants.”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“He was a true English butler, just like his father before him, and his grandfather before that. Three generations; bred and butlered.”

— Ken Magee

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer…

— Cecil Rhodes

For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's…

— Ben Miller

“Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race is capable…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“And let me now posit this: ‘dignity’ has to do crucially with a butler’s ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits. Lesser…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

“If I couldn't do that much for my master then what kind of butler would I be, really.”

— Anonymous

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to…

— Julian Barnes

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

— Edward Gibbon

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French…

— Dan Brown