Thank you, Mr. Stevens. Dignity, that's right. Dignity.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Remains of the Day movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:17:44 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Sprouts are done. Not is done. Isn't that right?

- Yes.

- Forgive the... correction, I'm sure Charles, as I would have done, at your age, for the sake of my education.

- I'm sure, even you Charles, have ambitions to rise in your profession.

- Oh, yes, I want to be a butler. To be called Mister, not Charlie. And sit in my own pantry by my own fire, smoking my cigar.

- I wonder if you realize what it really takes to be a great butler?

- Takes dignity. That's what it takes.

- Thank you, Mr. Stevens. Dignity, that's right. Dignity.

- This is the official definition as given in our quarterly 'The Gentlemen's Gentleman': 'A great butler must be possessed of dignity in keeping with his position.'

- There was this English butler in India. One day, he goes in the dining room and what he sees under the table? A tiger.

- Not turning a hair, he goes straight to the drawing room.

- 'Excuse me, My Lord.'

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