Butlers Breed Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

“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

“But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they…

— Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

“What's the use of a lague of nations if it's to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies?" said Mr. Rasmussen sourly. "But…

— John Dos Passos

“The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.”

— Lawrence Booth

“...you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form…

— Maurice Dekobra

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

— Ada Leverson

“The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I’ve never once met a Briton…

— Zen Cho

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

— James Thomson

“Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“It will not be believed that such a force as Great Britain has employed in this country could be baffled in their plan of…

— John Ripin Miller