Servant Quotes - Page 7

• The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

  Juvenal

  Tongue, Worst

  Juvenal, Persius (1848). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius Literally Translated from the Most Approved Texts by W. Wallace”, p.54

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• Everyone is a master and servant.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Masters And Servants

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Honorable Man, People

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.76

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• She who only finds her self-esteem
  In others' admiration, begs an alms;
  Depends on others for her daily food,
  And is the very servant of her slaves;
  Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
  O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
  Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

  Joanna Baillie

  Self Esteem, Men, May

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.27

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• Society is the master, and man is the servant.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Men, Society, Masters

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• As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love.

  Hugh Latimer

  Charity, Christ, Lord

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• I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Heart, Humble

  Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.

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• Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

  Pierre Charron

  Humble, Gay, Men

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• Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, Men, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.

  Jeff Cooper

  Country, Father, Philosophy

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 4, No. 16, December 1996.

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• Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

  J. G. Holland

  Soul, Body, Should

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• God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

  Joseph Caryl

  Arrows, Grace, Special

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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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• Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Love Is, Fire, Play

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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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