Obsequiousness isglorified: While honest worth must wait outside.

-Chao
c.180  AD  'Poems of Disgust, no.1', collected in  A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry (translated by  John Turner,1976). English   film   actor   and   director.   He   developed   his   skill   in comedy  under  Fred  Karno  and  moved  to  Hollywood  in 1914. His  early  short  comedies  were  extremely  popular.  His  feature films  included  Modern Times  (1936), The  Great  Dictator  (1940) and Limelight (1952).

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to his son,10 Mar.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for whattheyare worth and sell them for whatthey think theyare worth.

-Forbes, (Malcolm Stevenson) 'Steve',Jr
Quoted in David Mahoney Confessions of aStreet-Smart Manager (1988).

There are only two things worth aiming for: good music and a clean conscience.

-Hindemith, Paul
  Letter to Willy Strecker.

: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? :Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
BOSWELLJOHNSON1779  Conversation,12 Oct. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

The worth ofthe State, inthelong run, istheworth of the individuals composing it.

-Mill,John Stuart
Considerations on Representative Government.

Thesecretariesherehaveanadvantage Inever had.They can prove to themselves their commercial worth.

-Rockefeller,John D(avison),Jr
  Speech to the NewYork Chamber of Commerce, 6 Apr. Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz The Rockefellers (1976).

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'WillWaterproof's Lyrical Monologue', stanza 6, l.41^4.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd; Bid her come forth, Suffer her self to be desir'd, And not blush to be admir'd.

-Waller, Edmund
  'Go, lovely rose'.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force, and it is worth a great deal to save women and girls from its influence.

-Webb, (Martha) Beatrice ne¤  e Potter
  Health ofWorking Girls, ch.10.