Servants Quotes

“Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free. ”
― Janette Oke

“Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours."
Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?"
Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study"
Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

“A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion.
These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.”
― J. M. Coetzee, Aspettando i barbari

“In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval knights as the historical Jesus with the temporal riches and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, or any church for that matter. Generally accompanied by their immoral entourage or servants, priests, and whores, they went from tourney to tourney like a touring rock and roll band, sports team, or gang of South Sea pirates. Court to court, skirmish to skirmish, rape to rape. Fighting as the noble's substitution for work.”
― Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

“Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

“The little fantasies of murder are what keep servants sane. They tell themselves they allow me my power. And if ever I become too dreadful, they will do me in and maybe take over. But of course they never do. They procrastinate their vengeance because deep down, they are afraid not just of me, but like all people they fear their own fantasies. Easier to cherish them and keep them inside where they are in control. Possible.”
― Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

“Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What will she do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants - I always am; but you must make 'em know their place. Eva never does; there's no getting into the child's head the first beginning of an idea what a servant's place is! You heard her offering to take care of me nights, to let Mammy sleep! That's just a specimen of the way the child would be doing all the time, if she was left to herself.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“Champagne, m'lord?'
'Have we got any? One bottle would do. Even a half-bottle.'
Smith's face puckered, as if manfully attempting to force his mind to grapple with a mathematical or philosophical problem of extraordinary complexity. His bearing suggested that he had certainly before heard the word 'champagne' used, if only in some distant, outlandish context; that devotion to his master alone gave him some apprehension of what this question—these ravings, almost—might mean. Nothing good could come of it. This was a disastrous way to talk. That was his unspoken message so far as champagne was concerned. After a long pause, he at last shook his head.
'I doubt if there is any champagne left, m'lord.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

“everyone would just keep on keeping on, pretending that nothing much had happened, and the pretense would become habitual, until, eventually, the lie would seem more real than the truth.”
― Jo Baker, Longbourn

“Casual humiliation was a regular feature of life in service. Servants were sometimes required, for instance, to adopt a new name, so that the second footman in a household would always be called ‘Johnson’, say, thus sparing the family the tedium of having to learn a new name each time a footman retired or fell under the wheels of a carriage. Butlers were an especially delicate issue. They were expected to have the bearing and comportment of a gentleman, and to dress accordingly, but often the butler was required to engage in some intentional sartorial gaucherie–wearing trousers that didn’t match his jacket, for instance–to ensure that his inferiority was instantly manifest.*”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“If Elizabeth had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them.”
― jo baker, Longbourn

“God uses his suffering servants to preach the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In Christ, we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“God choose his servants to serve his pleasurable purpose.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Her creamy child kissed by the black maid! square on the mouth!
World yelled, world writhed, world turned to light and rolled
Into her kitchen, nearly knocked her down.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

“On Civil Services Day, greetings to civil servants, past and present, and their families. Confident our hard-working and independent civil servants will rededicate themselves to India’s development. And strive with integrity for the welfare of fellow citizens.”
― Ramnath Kovind

“Leaders are like vessels that move a goal to its destination. That is why great leaders always become servants because leadership is not a luxury but an act of service to others.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“My fingers will not type the words 'her money became a burden to her' but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.”
― Quentin Crisp, How to Become a Virgin

“Bad customer service is a feature of law enforcement.”
― Steven Magee

“Every Crown shall serve the people not the people to serve the crown.”
― Njau Kihia

“Servants in that place are not meant to be seen or heard, but they see and hear plenty when no one believes they're present.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“And on cold days, and even on days that weren't all that cold, the rest of the servants, the yardman and the upstairs maid and so on, all black, would crowd into the kitchen with the cook and me. They liked being crowded together. When they were little, they told me, they slept in beds with a whole lot of brothers and sisters. That sounded like a lot of fun to me. It still sounds like a lot of fun to me.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick

“We live in a time when princes are trekking while servants are flying private jets”
― Oche Otorkpa

“My hair, then?” he pressed. “I know for a fact that someone stole the length I hacked off, because it disappeared from your washroom floor the way things magically disappear from washroom floors, and I caught a braid that looked suspiciously like mine at a stall in the Hearthenge marketplace by lunchtime.” I was holding in another laugh, biting my lip as Vidrol’s emotions exploded out of him. His agitation had been slowly climbing for weeks, but I had never seen him this bad. He didn’t seem to know what to do with the energy spilling from his skin.

“Things don’t disappear magically from washroom floors,” Vale’s voice carried right through his chest and into mine. “They’re called servants, dickhead.”
― Jane Washington, A World of Lost Words

“Servants are a notorious fountain of information about their employers.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker