Servant



A  is a person who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation.

Quotes

 * He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
 * Matthew 23:11 (KJV)


 * She’s the kitchen wench, and all grease.
 * Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, III, 2, Dromio of Syracuse, describing Nell


 * Thither I must, although against my will, For servants must their masters’ minds fulfil.
 * Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, IV, 1, Dromio of Syracuse


 * Every good servant does not all commands; No bond but to do just ones.
 * Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V, 1, Posthumus


 * Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law. Maid, to thy master’s bed, Thy mistress is o’ th’ brothel.
 * Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, IV, 1, Timon, cursing Athens


 * Your servant’s servant is your servant, madam.
 * Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, III, 1, Viola (disguised as Cesario) to Olivia


 * The servants—the most reliable judges of their masters because they judge not by their conversation or expressions of feeling but by their acts and way of life.
 * Leo Tolstoy, Война и миръ (1869), translated by as War and Peace (1922), First Epilogue, Ch. XII