Between Quote by Jesse Armstrong

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a…

— Agatha Christie

To a valet no man is a hero.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No man is a hero to his own valet.

— Michel de Montaigne

“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me”

— Virginia Woolf

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself…

— Jeanette Winterson

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Thus says the fool: "Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche