Servant

Not to be confused with Service.

A servant 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

• Les maîtres cependant sont des gens bien heureux,
  Que souvent nous ayons le sens commun pour eux.
  • Most lucky fellows are our masters oft,
    That they have us to find them common sense.
  • Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Sidnei, Act I, Sc. X (Dumont)

• 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 Aylmer and Louise Maude as War and Peace (1922), First Epilogue, Ch. XII