Valet Quotes - Page 2

• I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Hate, People, Guy

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

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• When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mother, My Birthday, Four

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Technique

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• I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

  Francois Rabelais

  Wells, Treated

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• Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Giving, Waiting

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.268, OUP Oxford

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• His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Expression, Knives

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.29, Penguin

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• Well I remember the first thing that from coming from New York that just stunned me and I couldn't understand was that you valet park for everything. Even - you valet park to go to the dry cleaner. And that, you know, that just blew my mind. I was like, okay, you have to pay $5 to a guy to just drop off your dry cleaning. And so that, to me, was nuts - the fact you're always arriving.

  Debra Messing

  New York, Nuts, Dry Cleaning

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those people - those workers. I'm glad that the service industry unionized.

  Jacob Tomsky

  People, Loyal, Unions

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Blessing, Men

  1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

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• But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

  Woody Allen

  What If, Needs, Ears

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vices, Masters, Confidant

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

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• I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

  Nicole Richie

  Trying, Waste, Wasting My Time

  UK Marie Claire Interview, www.alloy.com. August 2007.

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• I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

  Bill Walton

  Cheer, Team, Boston

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• 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

  Greatness, Men, Seems

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Eye, Men

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• As the master so the valet.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hero, Masters

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• I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
  [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
  Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]

  Horace

  Cutting, Iron, Vices

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• Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hero

  "Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1688.

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• To a valet no man is a hero.
  [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Fur

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• He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.
  [Lat., Quem dii diligunt,
  Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

  Plautus

  Death, Perception, God Love

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• A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.
  [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Husband, Children, Women

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• I worked at Starbucks, I was a waiter, a bartender and a valet, sometimes working 2 to 3 jobs at a time while getting a lot of 'no's' as an actor.

  Andrea Hall

  Jobs, Actors, Sometimes

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

  George Orwell

  Character, Class, Ordinary

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Adversity, Men, Order

  Alexandre Dumas (2006). “The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.87, Penguin

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• I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.

  Tom Bodett

  Feet, Space, Needs

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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