High-level British butler culture

Golda 2022-04-22 07:01:33

This butler needs to stick to his post when his own father is dead, orderly, shuttle between the banquets, and gracefully pour whiskey and martinis for the guests;
this butler has to clean the table, billiards, and shoes every day. He also has to wipe his ass for the master's difficulties;
the butler has to talk to the master about flowers, birds, fish and insects with a smile at all times, but he doesn't know anything about the upheaval outside the peaceful manor;
the butler does not step out of the manor for 30 years, but will use the new newspaper every day. The iron is ironed and handed to the lord (this detail impressed me a lot);
the housekeeper is the housekeeper, lobby manager, restaurant manager, executive chef, entertainment director, car captain, and stable manager. , but also to ensure that the five-star level of service is provided;
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It may take some time for such a level of butler to be used by China's local wealthy and the 50 richest people. The latter will use a few A boutique babysitter is enough to handle the housework in a mansion with $4,000 per square meter. Hong Kong people only hire a Filipino maid.
Elegant and acerbic, polite and hypocritical, decent and sour, the tirade-like dialogue is accurate and entertaining, giving us a lively lesson in British manners and grammar.
The inner strength of the literary film has been cultivated to such a point that one can only cry on the surface, and do not know what to say.

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The Remains of the Day quotes

  • Miss Kenton: [about a new housemaid] You don't like having pretty girls on the staff, I've noticed.

    [teasing]

    Miss Kenton: Might it be that our Mr Stevens fears distraction? Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all and doesn't trust himself?

    Stevens: [with the faintest trace of a smile] You know what I'm doing, Miss Kenton? I'm placing my thoughts elsewhere as you chatter away.

    Miss Kenton: ...then why is that guilty smile still on your face?

    Stevens: Oh it's not a guilty smile. I'm simply amused by the sheer nonsense you sometimes talk.

    Miss Kenton: It *is* a guilty smile. You can hardly bear to look at her. That's why you didn't want to take her on, she's too pretty.

    Stevens: Well, you must be right Miss Kenton, you always are.

  • Miss Kenton: I don't know what my future is. Ever since Katherine, my daughter, got married last year, my life has been empty. The years stretch before me and if only I knew how to fill them. But, I would like to be useful again.