Valet Quotes

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

it is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy.

Thomas Carlyle

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

Sophie Swetchine

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

Witold Gombrowicz

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

Fran Lebowitz

You have been to the Riviera before, Georges?” said Poirot to his valet the following morning. George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual. "Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the service of Lord Edward Frampton.” "And to-day,” murmured his master, "you are here with Hercule Poirot. How one mounts in the world!

Agatha Christie

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.

Ashley Madekwe

The difference between a man and his valet they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

Robert Frost

To make our story shorter than the miniature groom's, he learnt that his own property in himself was in danger; and that, if the patriot's definition of liberty be true -"it is like the air we breathe, without it we die"-his life was near its termination. A writ was issued against him; and, thanks to a douceur to his valet, two professional gentlemen, as he left his toilet, would deprive his friends at the Clarendon of his company.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

David Spade

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 His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices. (Oscar Wilde)

I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.

Tom Bodett