Grovel Quotes

I suppose I was just window-dressing at MGM. You might call me Taylor`s dummy. I wore Walter Plunkett`s costumes beautifully though. I was the last of the Englishmen, after Edmund Purdom and Stewart Granger, both of whom had been giving them trouble in Hollywood. I very quickly learned that I had to be highly humble and obsequious and grovel a lot.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn`t just a fiction, it`s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can`t be forever violated with impunity.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance