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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…

— W. Somerset Maugham

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

— Elinor Glyn

“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

Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life…

— Fanny Burney

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

— Ada Leverson

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle,…

— Oscar Wilde

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

— Anthony Burgess

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

— Ernest Gellner

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from…

— Nancy Mitford

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

— Lord Byron

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

— John Steinbeck

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

— Jean de la Bruyere