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Quotes About Guests

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!
~ Andy Cohen
The Admiral had the intense pleasure of welcoming Bill and Tubby again as his guests when they returned from a cheerful violation of Norway's highly un-neutral waters, with their rescued fellow-seamen; and when Mrs. Birkett heard that Bill had had the ocarina with him on that glorious occasion she felt that she had in no small measure contributed to the victory and the rescue and became quite bloated with pride. Two
~ Angela Thirkell
There were no Spirit-Seers among the guests that night to see the battered old ghost, armor in tatters but his broken sword held high,
~ Angie Sage
I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.
~ Tom Green
The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
~ Roberto Calasso
Realitatile sunt musafiri nepoftiti in lumea fanteziei.
~ Lee Child
And are we not all "mere guests" upon this whirling earth?
~ Lee Smith
In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to consider every possibility: assuming you spent one second considering each one, it would come to more than half a million years. The unhappy guest will assume, of course, that you are being histrionic.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples; they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit:
~ Lewis Carroll
meanwhile we'll drink your health - queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly...
~ Lewis Carroll
ladies & gentlemen, the Professor began, the Other Professor is so kind as to recite a Poem. The title of it is 'The Pig-Tale.' He never recited it before! (General cheering among the guests.) He will never recite it again! (Frantic excitement, & wild cheering all down the hall, the Professor himself mounting the table in hot haste, to lead the cheering, & waving his spectacles in one hand & a spoon in the other.)
~ Lewis Carroll
If the government, by its sloth and criminal irresponsibility, had brought us, guests of France, into the dangerous situation that now faced us, the French people were doing their utmost to help us out of it.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Take care to keep open house : Because in this way some have had angels as their guests, without being conscious of it ". Hebrews 13:2.
~ Hebrew Bibles, Genesis -
There was the Queen, and then there was Seretse Khama and our own people. That is called history, you see." "But who asked them here?" The aunt shook her head. "There are some guests who do not knock." "That is very rude." "Yes," said the aunt.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.
~ Dr. Seuss
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.
~ Anne Fine
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come string and beans in your kitchen.
~ Anne Fine
Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.
~ Anonymous
I have some guests who get angry when they don't get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting.
~ Rich Eisen
ELECTRA: ¡Ah, cómo puedes acoger a huéspedes tan altos en su alcurnia, cuando miras la escasez y miseria de tu hogar? CAMPESINO: Nobles dices que son y así se muestra. No importa la pequeñez y pobreza de nuestra casa: si nobles son, con ella han de ajustarse
~ Euripides
How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Je préfère ces soirées-là. Elles sont plus intimes. Quand vous n'êtes qu'une poignée d'invités, l'intimité est impossible.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ils sont arrivés au coucher du soleil, et pendant que nous naviguions parmi des centaines d'invités en effervescence, Daisy faisait jouer dans un murmure les sortilèges de sa voix.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Si bene quid memini, Causae sunt quinque bibendi: Hospitis adventus, praesens sitis atque futura, Aut vini bonitas, aut quaelibet altera causa.* * Jei neklystu, / Yra penkios priežastys gerti: / At?j?s svetys, esamas ar b?simas troškulys, / Geras vynas arba bet kuri kita priežastis.
~ Fernando Pessoa