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Quotes About Guests

It's often the guests you don't expect to be interesting who are the best. On 'Light Lunch,' I remember a guest called Ivor Spencer. He was the Royal Toastmaster and he was great, a real good-time guy.
~ Mel Giedroyc
You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests.
~ Letitia Baldrige
Ultimately, what we're trying to do for our customers or our guests is create magical travel experiences.
~ Nathan Blecharczyk
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
~ Marcus Terentius Varro
discovered you and Lady Oxbury were going to be guests as well.
~ Sally MacKenzie
The guests are met, the feast is set:May'st hear the merry din.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Plan ahead! Prepare dishes ahead of time if you can. Keep it simple. Most importantly, have fun and enjoy your guests.
~ Alyssa Milano
It's all about getting them back in, and I think…my husband and I talk about it all the time…it's about making it personal for the guest.
~ Stephanie Izard
I was re-reading The Gracious Hostess last night, and it says that even if your guest is annoying you, you must behave with charm and decorum. Well, fine. I can be charming. I can be decorative.
~ Sophie Kinsella
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
He smelled like the soap she bought for guests. It made her happy, as if she owned a small part of him. As if she had changed him.
~ Eloisa James
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
~ Elsa Maxwell
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
That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.
~ Barbara Hall
Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
~ Liza Minnelli
As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.
~ Joel Robuchon
I'm really excited to build an experience for the receivers. Many of the senders are also receivers, but we initially built the product really for the sender be able to invite their guests, and we didn't have really any receiver experience.
~ Alexa Hirschfeld
From that date she had had no other chaperone than Nurse, but, as she pointed out to Lady Denny, since she neither went into society nor received guests at Undershaw it was hard to see what use a chaperon would be to her.
~ Georgette Heyer
I'll never have a house party again. You stand around for ages worried that nobody's coming and the next minute you're queuing for your own toilet while someone you've never met is asking you if you know whose party this is.
~ Josh Widdicombe
History resembles a guest list, in that sense, of the invited and the gate-crashers, the people, for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares. Sometimes the gate-crashers prove to be the life of the party.
~ Sarah Churchwell
I hate parties. And a wedding is the biggest party of all. All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower. He's always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn't have to greet them. Then I have to greet them.
~ Sarah Ruhl
For example, if you're a guest it is not polite to ask to use the host's toilet, apparently: they might feel embarrassed because it isn't presentable for guests. And as a host, don't, whatever you do, pass the cheese platter more than once. It's considered ill-mannered, I read, after I'd done precisely that at least five hundred times.
~ Sarah Turnbull
His remorse and better judgment arrived, late as usual, like party guests riding in just after the social disaster of the season has already erupted.
~ Scott Lynch
College student Dave MacPherson was the very first guest to enter Disneyland. He didn't ride a single attraction that time because he had to get back to school. However, he was awarded a life-long ticket to Disneyland with up to three guests. The ticket was later extended to include Disney parks around the world.
~ Scott Matthews