Quotes About Hospitality

I have great tenants. They've all become my friends. They call me and say, 'Hey Kev, we've got a drip!'

I like New York, man - I ain't gonna front. The only thing I probably don't like about New York is that, coming from the South, people aren't hospitable. You tell somebody 'Hi,' and they look at you like you're out your freaking mind.

You get on an elevator with someone, you say hi to them, you speak to them. You give respect. That's just how I've always been.

The restaurant industry in New York in the '80s was a good place to hide out if you had issues.

In Chino Hills, everybody is cool with everybody, so I had a lot of friends. My house was kind of the hang out house, where everybody would come over.

The ideal flower of hospitality is almost unknown to the rich; it can hardly be grown save in the gardens of the poor; it is one of their beatitudes.

But Mrs. Wingfold had developed a great aptitude for liking people. Surely more people would allow themselves to be thus changed if they realized how greatly the coming of the kingdom of God is slowed by a simple lack of courtesy.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.

Essentially, a 'smart' hotel is a place where a hundred people toil like devils in order that two hundred may pay through the nose for things they do not really want.

There is nothing more dreadful in the world than to live in somebody else's house, eating his bread and doing nothing in return for it.

A smart hotel is a place where 100 people toil like devils in order that 200 may pay through the nose for things they do not really want.

Kirlilik, oteller ile lokantalar?n özünde vard?r çünkü yiyeceÄŸin temizliÄŸi, dakiklik ve ??kl?k uÄŸruna gözden ç?kar?l?r.

Even when there was no doubt about the invitation he always half expected that there would be some hitch or other. He was never quite certain of his welcome.

He was like the bed at a party on which they pile the coats.

If I had my way I'd move everybody up to Canada. It's nice there. Very polite. We went for a weekend last fall and got a flat tire and these two farmers with bright-red faces insisted on fixing it, then springing for dinner, then starting a college fund for the babies.

Ningún lugar es aburrido si me dan una mesa, buen café y unos libros. Eso es una patria.

I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend. [on an upcoming trip to Denmark]

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

since he was himself of a forthright disposition he was inclined to like Sophy's frank, open manners, and obstinately refused to agree that she put herself forward unbecomingly. He did not think that she put herself forward at all, which made it difficult to see just how it was that she contrived to introduce quite a new atmosphere into the house.

Your strength lies in being precisely the kind of man who can procure one a chair when it has come on to rain.

If a man gives a party, he ought to know what kind of party it is,' argued the Viscount. 'If you don't know, how are we to know? It might be a damned soirée, in which case we wouldn't have come. Let's go home, Pom.

And let me tell you, Mr Ravenscar, that Lucius Kennet is downstairs, and if you have any notion of starting a vulgar brawl in my house, I will have you thrown out of it! There is Silas, and both the waiters, and my aunt's butler, and my brother too, so do not think I cannot do it!' 'This is very flattering,' he said, 'but I fear my fighting qualities have been exaggerated. It would not take all these people to throw me out of the house.