A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew Henry

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry Bolingbroke

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster