Servant
person who works within the scope of a residence
A servant is a person who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation.
Quotes
edit- 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)
- Most lucky fellows are our masters oft,
- 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