as for living....

Yes, but where did you find the quote to begin with?

It could have been said by someone like Dorothy Parker.

Servants

Oscar Wilde said: 'In a civilized country every man should have a slave'. I guess Your quote is much older, although it is about servants.

As far as I know and remember the quote is from Axël in Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam’s (1838-1889) posthumously published play Axël. As a matter of fact Axël says: "As for living our servants will do that for us!"

Axel

Right, this quote must have come down to us through Edmund Wilson's 'Axel's Castle', his study of early modernist literature.
Thank you Eddy Esman.
BTW, does anyone read Edmund Wilson anymore?
His 'Memoirs of Hecate County' deserve to be read and read again.

The servant.

Eddy

Thanks!

Careca

Would that be John Osborne's 'The Servant' ?
Or the film by Joseph Losey ? Based on Harold Pinter's 'The Servant'?

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/48/servant.htm

http://books.google.nl/books?id=jcCADouuE_UC&pg=PA330&lpg=PA330&dq=the+servant+john+osborne&source=bl&ots=A6rElQa-Up&sig=kCw1-ZOAvl75DyPkvoopcTrTnH4&hl=en&ei=q6UyS6r8FInJ-Qaa39yuCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=the%20servant%20john%20osborne&f=false
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As for living ,let the servants do that for us

I can't agree more.
Anyone volunteer to be my servant?

@ Bert Hesper
As Sander once told me, it is better to use http://www.tiny.cc/ for long addresses.
Your servant,

@ Vera M
Sorry, I am already Servant Of More Than Two Masters.