"Only after losing your so-called "reputation" do you begin to understand what a burden it is and how good the "freedom" gained at such a price is."

A man with a scandalous reputation, a cynic and an adventurer, a cold-blooded and calculating person.

Butler is a rebel and a leader, an outcast of society, unwilling to dance to the tune of existing ideas about decency and ideas about what a gentleman should be.