#servants

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#equal #equality #hall #his #lordship

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#because #civil #civil servants #colonial #criticism

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

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conductor #disappear #evidence #functions #himself

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job. ↗

— John Major

#admiration #for the people #great #house #huge

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important. ↗

— James McAvoy

#get #important #just #need #people

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men. ↗

— Origen

#also #angels #certain #church #god

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ↗

— William Penn

#between #children #his #love #man

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#authorized #baptize #god #him #his