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Quotes About Guests

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
~ Max Beerbohm
People are either born hosts or born guests.
~ Max Beerbohm
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
~ Unknown
The family was serious about education; after dinner, Fred was known to issue volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to his children and guests for a little light reading.
~ Unknown
One of the guests at this wedding, who has been close to her for years, says that here in Oxfordshire, Rebekah [Brooks] is a country wife... but that, in London, where the real transactions take place, she is 'the beating heart of the Devil'.
~ Nick Davies
You are a guesthouse and your guests for but a few days are alternatively sorrows and joys.
~ Unknown
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
Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
~ Patricia Briggs
Do we have to invite all of them?" "We might as well," Cimorene said. "We're asking everyone else. And most of them are family." "I think it would be easier to elope," Mendanbar said.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it was a fancy-dress ball.
~ Unknown
Amy fu il premio degli Schneiderman, il regalo di Natale nascosto sotto un mucchio di carta appallottolata che non lo trovi finché la festa non è finita e gli ospiti sono andati tutti a casa.
~ Paul Auster
Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.
~ 2 Samuel 15:11
Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ramís horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
~ 1 Kings 1:41
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
~ Matthew 9:15
The king was grieved, but because of his oaths and his guests, he ordered that her wish be granted
~ Matthew 14:9
So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
~ Matthew 22:10
But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
~ Matthew 22:11
Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.
~ Mark 2:19
The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.
~ Mark 6:26
Jesus replied, “Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them?
~ Luke 5:34
But Jesus replied, “A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests.
~ Luke 14:16