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Quotes About Hospitality

Dr. Ryley. Mrs. Schneider looked a little surprised, then took on the role of hostess, pouring my coffee, offering sugar, cream. She pressed cookies on me
~ John Connolly
the world bars strangers or makes them present their papers—but the kingdom offers them hospitality and invites them to the wedding feast.
~ John D. Caputo
source of his thaumaturgical powers. A gracious host as well, he cherishes his Guests and makes them eternally welcome.
~ John DeChancie
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.
~ Joan D. Chittister
I have been a huge fan of America, as I find their way of life there is pretty unique, and I have enjoyed a lot of good times over there.
~ Michael Schumacher
I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.
~ Rene Rivkin
If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.
~ Deborah Day
I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.
~ George Matthew Adams
Be the first to say, "Hello".
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.
~ Linda Ellerbee
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
~ Abraham Verghese
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.
~ Ann Leckie
I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.
~ Bradley Cooper
And when like her, O Saki, you shall passAmong the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,And in your joyous errand reach the spotWhere I made One—turn down an empty Glass!
~ Edward Fitzgerald
It is not the quantity of the meat but the cheerfulness of the guests which makes the feast.
~ Edward Hyde
The extraverted are right, however, when they say that "a stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
~ Elaine N. Aron
My mother used to say, "You can eat off my floor." You can eat off my floor, too. There are thousands of things there.
~ Elayne Boosler
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history, we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunate from other countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have profited a thousand fold by what they have brought us.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
After dinner the doors of the apartment were thrown open and everyone, whether invited or not, could partake of the "sweet table": slices of cheesecake, bundt cake, strudel, rugelach, strawberry shortcake prepared with sponge cake, honey cake, macaroons, chocolate cake, Linzer torte, nut cookies, lemon cookies, sugar cookies, hamantaschen, prune Danish and cinnamon twists- mountains of everything.
~ Eleanor Widmer
At the first such gathering, I politely sat with them for half an hour, drank some vodka, and even recited a toast about how great it was that Gulya had such great friends. This proved to be a tactical error, since afterward Gulya wanted me to drink vodka and recite toasts with them every night, which was not compatible with my program of study of the great Uzbek language.
~ Elif Batuman
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
~ Anthony Minghella
hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.
~ Anthony Shadid