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Quotes About Guest

May you have the eyes to see That no visitor arrives without a gift And no guest leaves without a blessing.
~ John O'Donohue
As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.
~ Pope Francis
Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.
~ Cornelia Funke
Yet as soon as he acquired his social position, he ceased to take advantage of it. It was not merely because once he was an official guest he no longer experienced any pleasure at being invited, but also, because of the two vices which had competed so long within him, the least natural, snobbery, gave way to the other, more natural one, since it marked a return, however devious, to nature.
~ Marcel Proust
The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.
~ Emily Post
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
~ Dick Cavett
Un mal hábito entra como un huésped, se une a la familia y, finalmente, se hace con el control.» El Talmud
~ Unknown
I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.
~ Martha Graham
My guest was not the sort to whom you would say, "Please drop by again when you are next around". Once is enough.
~ Mary Beard
Love lodged in a woman's breast, Is but a guest
~ Unknown
You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest.
~ Marya Hornbacher
To love thus is to love according to the soul; and there is no soul that does not respond to this love. For the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back, and never has it to be summoned twice to the nuptial feast.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
He can stay with us.
~ Unknown
I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
~ Nancy McKeon
Waling the lush grounds overlooking the Potomac, sipping tea, or engaged in needle work in one of Mount Vernon's wainscoted parlors, the two matrons must have made a remarkable contrast; Martha, its soft-spoken mistress, and Lucy, her warm but high-strung 'northern' guest.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
L'homme ne possède pas son intelligence, son intelligence est en visite chez lui.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.
~ Nuruddin Farah
What's the hurry?" he said "This door is locked," Tully told him. "So?" "Can you pick a lock?" "I'll give it a try." "Be my guest" Tully said, stepping to one side. Pap blew the lock away with the shotgun. He pushed the door open with the barrel.
~ Unknown
You must come home with and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do all that is in my power to honor you.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
~ Peter Høeg
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from
~ Peter Høeg
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.
~ Peter Høeg
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it. When I start talking about Qaanaaq, to myself or to others, I again start to lose what has never been truly mine.
~ Peter Høeg