Quote by Juvenal

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Summary

This quote suggests that in every great household or influential institution, there will be servants who exude arrogance or a sense of superiority. It implies that people in positions of power or privilege often surround themselves with individuals who display a certain level of pride or snobbishness. The quote alludes to the idea that the dynamics of social status and hierarchy can create an environment where servants may adopt an arrogant attitude as a means of asserting their own importance within the household.

Topics

Service

By Juvenal

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not ass

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius

Strength

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, w

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Edward R. Murrow

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suff

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existi

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

Milton Friedman

Business

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing an

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Knowledge Women

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

Insects

$Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second a$

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

Life Miracles Mistakes Opportunity Paradise

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Fear

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those mo

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

Love

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even be

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a pe

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

Future

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in travel

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

Rodney Dangerfield

Man