I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
Right.” Sadie looked dazed. “You’ve got a monkey butler. Why not?
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.
Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.
We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.
A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.
Noble houskeepers neede no dores.
I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.
There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.
A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.
Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed. There's very little private time with the children in the early years. Actually, there's much more private time with the children in the 20s.
Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
A maid that laughs is half taken.
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.
