Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Remains of the Day.
Friendship Quotes
The atmosphere was dominated by a feeling of mutual respect […]. There existed in those days a true camaraderie in our profession, whatever the small differences in our approach. (1.38)
Repression Quotes
[…] my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth: that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a...
Guilt and Blame Quotes
And when today one hears talk about his lordship, when one hears the sort of foolish speculations concerning his motives […] I for one will never doubt that a desire to see "justice in this world...
Memory and the Past Quotes
Miss Kenton's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall. (1.9)
Principles (Duty, Dignity, Professionalism) Quotes
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm […]. One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a b...
Society and Class Quotes
Membership […] remained closer to nine or ten. This, and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body, lent it much mystique for a time. (2.30)
Politics (Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Englishness) Quotes
It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term "g...
Exploration Quotes
[…] a reply to the effect that those of our profession, although we did not see a great deal of country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites, did actually "see"...