Zitate aus dem Buch «Остаток дня / The Remains of the Day»

‘It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years, sir, within these very walls.’

It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days. An expedition, I should say, which I will undertake alone, in the comfort of Mr Farraday’s Ford;

Coming out of the blue as it did

my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be, I would venture, dependable

that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan.

The idea of such a journey came about