Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Language does not make one an elite.

No man is a hero to his valet.

A Plowman on his knees is higher than a Gentleman on his legs.

I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it's because you're forced to have a certain humility if you're not an affluent white man.

I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

Anybody can be rattled. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but at the end of the day, he is just a quarterback. It's not like he is God.

You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

To a valet no man is a hero.

As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.