Quotes About Hospitality

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any time

There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.

Food first, then talk. Life looks better on a full stomach. People become civilized when they break bread together. Margaret had taught me that.

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.

Therefore, Mr. Fergus, if you choose to enter my house as a friend, I will make you welcome, but if not, I must confess, I would rather you kept away

On her ideal dinner party: 'Virginia Woolf, Coleridge and Charles Lamb would have to be there. I would be scurrying around in the kitchen with Mary Lamb - she and I would do the cooking. Of course my brother would be there. I think that's about enough. That number would sustain a single conversation. Virginia and I would be the centre of attention.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

You show up as is, hangdog, skeptical, pissy, or superior. Someone welcomes you and pats the seat next to them. Someone will get other people water, or watch the kids, or do a neighbor's laundry, or wash somebody's feet.

It is not appropriate for ladies to speak too much at table," she explained. "They should listen, respond appropriately, and ask after interests, welfare, and so on. If a gentleman wishes to talk, and usually they do, you listen as if fascinated, and never ask questions to which you suspect he does not know the answer.

had taken out the iron key to the lock and I studied him, wondering what promises one exacts from such a monster before opening one's door. Did the ancient laws of hospitality mean anything to the creatures of the night?

I opened my doors to any of the Undead who would wipe their boots before entering. It was like the old days in Venice, with Bianca's palazzo open to all ladies and gentlemen, indeed, to all artists, poets, dreamers and schemers who dared to present themselves, had come again.

some good," Randall said, opening the door for Holly. "We'll meet you in an hour. Call and order something from room service. You look

big, and when you all come to visit it's too small." "We'll be fine

Willa made sure to keep a rapt expression on her face so the stewardess wouldn't feel ignored.

It's everything. I hate the heat; I hate the humidity; the accent is atrocious…I don't know what we're doing here." "Well, sweetheart? We're just helping Denise for a few days." "We don't even know Denise!

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.