3.1 Remains of the Day Quotes

Question 0

Quote 2: traits

Answer 0

The most irritating of traits within an employer - inconsistency

Question 1

Quote 1: In a manner

Answer 1

In a manner worthy of one’s position

Question 2

Quote 3: Symmons

Answer 2

Most marvellous view over miles of the surrounding countryside

Question 3

Quote 4: Restraint

Answer 3

I would say it was the very lack of obvious drama… What is the calmness of that beauty, it’s sense of restraint

Question 4

Quote 5: stone

Answer 4

We’re received as though hewn on tablets of stone

Question 5

Quote 6: trimmings

Answer 5

Our generation has been too preoccupied with the trimmings

Question 7

Quote 7: Monkey

Answer 7

Being displayed as a kind of performing monkey

Question 8

Quote 8: Dignity

Answer 8

Dignity has to do crucially with a butler’s ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits

Question 9

Quote 9: Englishman

Answer 9

A great butler, he is bound, by definition, to be an Englishman

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Quote 10: waste

Answer 10

To a life that has become so dominated by a sense of waste

Question 11

Quote 11: shafts

Answer 11

Orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom

Question 12

Quote 12: pride

Answer 12

I am today proud to have given my best years of service to

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Quote 13: battle

Answer 13

As a general might prepare for a battle

Question 14

14: Amateur

Answer 14

But his lordship is an amateur

Question 15

15 Crying

Answer 15

You look as though you’re crying

Question 16

16: Triumph

Answer 16

I find I do so with a large sense of triumph

Question 17

17: Employee

Answer 17

It is not customary in England for an employee to discuss past employers

Question 18

18: Halifax

Answer 18

Put him in a different frame of mind altogether

Question 19

19: pretend

Answer 19

Why mr Stevens? Why, why, why do you always have to pretend?

Question 20

20: Command

Answer 20

Develop a command of the English language

Question 21

22 illogical

Answer 21

It is quite illogical I should feel any shame or regret on my own account

Question 22

21: Smith Dignity

Answer 22

There’s no dignity in being a slave… Privileges of being born English

Question 24

23: intention

Answer 24

It wasn’t my intention to deceive anyone

Question 25

24: Unable to assist

Answer 25

I am sorry, sir, but I am unable to assist on this matter

Question 26

25: surface

Answer 26

On the surface quite convivial

Question 27

26: Downcast

Answer 27

At first, my mood was - I do not mind admitting it - downcast

Question 28

27: turning back

Answer 28

After all, there’s no point in turning back the clock now

Question 29

28: Breaking heart

Answer 29

At that moment my heart was breaking

Question 30

30: renewed effort

Answer 30

I will begin practicing with a renewed effort

Question 31

29: All to Darlington

Answer 31

I gave it all to lord Darlington

Question 32

31: Lesser Butlers

Answer 32

Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for their private one at the least provocation

Question 33

32: father dignity

Answer 33

my father not only manifests, but comes close to being the personification of dignity