Valet Quotes

• To a valet no man is a hero.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men

  "Elective Affinities". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 5., 1809.

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• The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Color, Soul, Mind

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• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Literature, Want, Firsts

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.287, Vintage

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• No man is a hero to his own valet.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hero, Men, Political

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• I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.

  Amy Poehler

  Men, Years, Car

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Differences, Smoking

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• I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

  Arthur Balfour

  Party, Advice, Conservative

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• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Bullying, Dog

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

  David Spade

  Making Money, Busboys, Employee

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Lectures, Distinguished

  Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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• Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Education, Sex, Philosophy

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• Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shining, Gentleman, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.10

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• The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.131, Penguin

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• No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Hero, Men, Heroism

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• Whom the gods love dies young.

  Menander

  Latin, God Love, Young

  Dis Exapaton fragment 4

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• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Vanity, Persuasion

  1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

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• He whom the Gods love dies young.

  Plautus

  Latin, God Love, Young

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “Comedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.191

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• Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Stamps

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

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• 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

  Hero, Men, Said

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• No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Hero, Men, Chamber

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Duncan Forbes (1975). “Lectures on the Philosophy of World History”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
  [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hero

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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 servants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Wife, World

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• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  Walter Lippmann

  Kings, People, Ears

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Men, Careers

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• Anybody who gives their car to a valet isn't a car guy

  Jay Leno

  Giving, Car, Guy

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