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

    "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.
  • Whom the gods love dies young.

    Latin   God Love   Young  
    Dis Exapaton fragment 4
  • 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.

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

    1818 Persuasion, ch.1.
  • 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.

    People   Loyal   Unions  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

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

    Cutting   Iron   Vices  
  • 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 His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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

    Hate   People   Guy  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • No man is a hero to his own valet.

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

    1818 Persuasion, ch.1.
  • It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

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

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

    UK Marie Claire Interview, www.alloy.com. August 2007.
  • The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

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

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

    Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
  • No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

    Hero   Men   Valet  
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Duncan Forbes (1975). “Lectures on the Philosophy of World History”, p.87, Cambridge University Press
  • I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

  • Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

    Hero   Valet  
    "Caractères". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1688.
  • 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.]

  • 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.

    Wise   Home   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.131, Penguin
  • I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

    Wells   Valet   Treated  
  • 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 (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

    Greatness   Men   Valet  
  • He whom the Gods love dies young.

    Latin   God Love   Young  
    Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “Comedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.191
  • Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

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

  • 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.

    Eye   Expression   Knives  
    Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.29, Penguin
  • 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.]

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