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Quotes About Guests

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?" "Even then.
~ Cassandra Clare
Fool's blood, king's blood, blood on the maiden's thigh, but chains for the guests and chains for the bridegroom, aye aye aye.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was indescribable; the house and garden would be dotted with poets, authors, artists, and playwrights arguing, painting, drinking, typing, and composing. Far from being the ordinary, charming people that Larry had promised, they all turned out to be the most extraordinary eccentrics who were so highbrow that they had difficulty in understanding one another.
~ Gerald Durrell
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
~ Max Beerbohm
A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.
~ Ismail Kadare
She heard a trill of laughter float down the hall, lifted a brow. Company? Indeed. With his disapproving eye, Summerset scanned her wilted shirt and slacks, skimmed over the weapon harness still strapped to her side. I suggest you bathe and change before meeting your guests. I suggest you kiss my ass, she said cheerfully and strolled by him.
~ J.D. Robb
In TV you have to open a show the subject, you deal with an idea. Then you deal with a sponsor - but fast. Then you have to announce the guest stars. As a result, you have a big fat 30, 40 seconds - 50 if they really lose their heads - to put together an unbelievable mishmash.
~ Saul Bass
In their rooms, some guests read or made love, but most of them slept, blissfully unaware of the fact that their innkeepers were losing their minds.
~ Tamara Thorne
In the guest room she snagged a little bobble-head donkey—given to her by her nieces—and a painted wooden brush that lay neatly on a mirrored tray that was set out for guests who never came. The bristles were free of hair, except for
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important people to invite and get them to show up as speakers or as guests. Then everybody wants to be there. If you don't know who the important people are, you shouldn't be doing a conference.
~ Tim O'Reilly
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
Most of the people around the entrance were, of course, bellhops and taxi drivers. Guests went in and out. Some were dressed in business suits, others in casual tourist attire. He did not see any commandos in tracksuits.
~ Neal Stephenson
Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available space had been claimed by this guest suite. It was situated right in Trinity College, and Richard guessed it had been laid out eight hundred years ago so that noble guests could ride their horses directly into the bedchamber and bring all of their squires and wolfhounds with them too.
~ Neal Stephenson
HOSPITALITY O King of stars! Whether my house be dark or bright, Never shall it be closed against any one, Lest Christ close His house against me. If there be a guest in your house And you conceal aught from him, 'Tis not the guest that will be without it, But Jesus, Mary's Son.
~ Kuno Meyer
My wife likes to say that the mind is a palace with room for many guests. Perhaps the butler takes care to install the delegates of Science in a different wing from the emissaries of Faith, lest they take up arguing in the passages.
~ Laini Taylor
Guests aren't trouble[...]they're a blessing. Having no one to cook for, now, that's a sadness.
~ Laini Taylor
Tamu tak pernah tak dijamu di rumah orang Aceh. Dan bukan sekedar makanan kecil, tapi makanan lengkap. Nasi dan lauk-pauk.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.
~ Cassandra Clare
Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be doing here in the library... alone." He wiggled his eyebrows at Tessa.
~ Cassandra Clare
Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.
~ Cassandra Clare
We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad
~ Catherine Anderson
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
~ P. J. O'Rourke, unverified
Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure.
~ Portuguese Proverb
Fish and Visitors stink in 3 days.
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1736