:16:01
If you will please excuse me.
:16:07
Oh, well.
:16:16
My compliments to cook.
:16:18
What a lovely piece of crackling.
:16:22
I'm sure you said something witty.
Share it with the rest of us.
:16:27
I said the sprouts is done the way
I like them. Crisp-like, not mushy.
:16:31
Sprouts "are" done, not " is" done.
:16:34
Isn't that right, George?
:16:35
Yes, Mr. Stevens.
:16:37
Forgive the correction,
as I would have done...
:16:40
...at your age for the sake
of my education.
:16:43
I'm sure even you have ambitions
to rise in your profession.
:16:48
Oh, yes. I want to be
a butler, to be called Mister...
:16:52
...sit in my own pantry by my own fire,
smoking my cigar.
:16:56
I wonder if you realize what it takes
to be a great butler?
:16:59
Takes dignity, that's what it takes.
:17:02
Thank you, Mr. Stevens.
Dignity, that's right. Dignity.
:17:07
The definition from our quarterly
The Gentlemen's Gentleman:
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A great butler must be possessed
of dignity--
:17:13
In keeping with his position.
:17:17
There was this English butler
in India.
:17:21
One day, he goes in the dining room
and what's under the table?
:17:26
A tiger.
:17:28
Not turning a hair,
he goes to the drawing room.
:17:33
" Excuse me, my lord," and whispering,
so as not to upset the ladies:
:17:38
" I'm sorry. There appears to
be a tiger in the dining room.
:17:42
Perhaps His Lordship will permit
use of the twelve-bores?"
:17:47
They go on drinking their tea.
And then, there's three gunshots.
:17:53
They don't think nothing of it.
In lndia, they're used to anything.
:17:57
When the butler is back
to refresh the teapots...