Servants Quotes
369 Servants quotes by 302 unique authors
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Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
— Roger L'Estrange
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We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord…
— Dwight Edwards
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Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
— Samuel Johnson
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Every great house is full of haughty servants.
— Juvenal
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed…
— Karl Marx
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In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,…
— James A. Baldwin
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Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
— Loretta Young
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Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Unbelievers, those who believe with difficulty, or believe in part, are those who do not show their faith through works. Apart from works the demons…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.
— Randall Wright
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Famous designers think nothing of putting their names on your clothing, but would have the servants set the dogs on you if you ever tried…
— Dave Barry
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What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader....Let us become a real servant instead.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored…
— Gerry Spence
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Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public…
— Mortimer Zuckerman
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My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow…
— Margaret Cavendish
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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major…
— Vince Cable
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