Greatness Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by…

— Michel de Montaigne

“I am often amused when women with little or no experience in housekeeping and/or unaccustomed to performing household chores, upon stumbling on a man…

— D. Cypriani Regis

“They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.”

— Herman Melville

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

“Men these days expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses.”

— Helen Simonson

“Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.”

— Jayce O'Neal

“It is the gentleman's job to match his pace and his step to the lady's. men do not have. All the power in the…

— Mary Balogh

“Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that’s true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really…

— Alice Hoffman

“My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of…

— Booker T. Washington

“one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive’.”

— Lisa Hilton

“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

“Every woman occasionally wonders what manner of man she has married. No matter how long she has been living with her husband, once in…

— Louise Dickinson Rich