Quotes About Butler

At last he met the chief butler, the sight of which splendid retainer always finished him. Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing-room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot. At dinner, he was envied

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.

Presently, I was aware that Jeeves was with me. I hadn't heard him come in, but you often don't with Jeeves. He just streams silently from spot A to spot B, like some gas.

Jeeves, Mr Little is in love with that female. So I gathered, sir. She was slapping him in the passage. I clutched my brow. Slapping him? Yes, sir. Roguishly.

Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don't know?' 'I couldn't say, sir.

Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman's gentlemen, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.

The servants were so surprised at seeing me that they hurried and bustled absurdly, and made all sorts of annoying mistakes. Even the butler, who was old enough to have known better, brought me a bottle of port that was chilled.

I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: 'Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with cunty fingers.' I saw the book in a flash.

Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on his white gloves so that fingerprints would not show he tapped at my heart and I thought he said his name was Love.

Wittles is up' said Killick

Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

After only a few seconds the door opened, and I had a very unsettling moment of disorientation. The man who opened the door and stood looking down at us was very nearly a dead ringer for Lurch, the butler on the old Addams Family TV show. He was close to seven feet tall and wore a classic butler's outfit, complete with morning coat. But happily for my sense of unreality, when he spoke to us it was in a high voice with a thick Cuban accent. "Joo rang?" he said. Deborah

Gladys.. work has kept you fit And Bill.. you never moan Well life's not for carrying cases With a butler of your own

Besides, marrying you is the only way I can have Burton as my butler.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Mr. Farquard Campbell," the butler said quietly, and stood back against the wall.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

For mercy's sake, the child is crazy! exclaimed Miss Rottenmeier, running up the stairs. In her hurry she had bumped into Sebastian, who was just then coming down. Bring the unlucky child up! she called to him, rubbing her head. All right, many thanks, answered the butler, rubbing his head, too, for he had encountered something far harder than she had.

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

and the Butler gave her a ride back to the apartment in a wheelbarrow. She did not laugh so much as wince and be pale.)