Servant Quotes - Page 4

• Everyone is a master and servant.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Masters And Servants

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• He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
  [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

  George Herbert

  Knives, Giving, Littles

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• A good king is a public servant.

  Ben Jonson

  Kings, Good Kings, Public Servants

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3197, Delphi Classics

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• I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Slave, Popularity

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

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• God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

  John Milton

  Church, Doe, Firsts

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

  Agatha Christie

  Imagination, Masters

  Agatha Christie (2015). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles”, p.69, Booklassic

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• The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

  Indira Gandhi

  Masters, Bureaucracy, Term

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “India: The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi”

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• The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Government, Interesting

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.61, Random House

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• I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Wife, Ignorant

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• Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Envy, Half

  Willa Cather, Gustave Flaubert (2007). “Rites of Compassion”, Feminist Press

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• There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Class, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Teacher, Children, Husband

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• The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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• a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Grief, Sorrow, Mistress

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Real, Self, World

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.17, Aeterna Press

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• There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

  Annie Besant

  Country, White Privilege, Land

  Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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• Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Real, Character

  EDNA FERBER (1958). “SHOW BOAT SO BIG CIMARRON”

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• From the king
  To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
  And you must grant, the slavery is less
  To study to please one, than many.

  Philip Massinger

  Kings, Slavery, Study

  Philip Massinger (1830). “The plays of Philip Massinger”, p.259

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• An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written, that's what we're there for.

  George Ogilvie

  Theatre, Musician, Directors

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• I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Political, Majority

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Years, California, America

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Mankind

  Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.253

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• I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

  Saint Basil

  Jesus, Men, Names

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• Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Lying, Men, Slave

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• For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

  Katharine Graham

  Eight, Cities, People

  Katharine Graham (2009). “Katharine Graham's Washington”, p.16, Vintage

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