Quotes About Hospitality

I managed to turn my anonymous little flat into something that felt, if not quite like a home, vaguely welcoming.

Mr Traynor's a nice man. And I wouldn't have brought you here if I thought it wouldn't go well.' 'If he doesn't like me, can we just leave? Like, really quickly?' 'Of course.' 'I'll know. Just from how he looks at me.' 'We'll skid out on two wheels if necessary.

Everyone I knew hated Monday mornings, but I never minded them. I liked arriving early at The Buttered Bun, firing up the huge tea urn in the corner, bringing in the crates of milk and bread from the backyard and chatting to Frank as we prepared to open.

He responded to each person he met as if he were already a friend.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Carter also showed respect by becoming the first American president to visit sub-Saharan Africa while in office: a state visit to Nigeria in 1978. He invited more African heads of state to the White House in his first year than any of his predecessors had in four.

And those who have well received and entertained them shall be gloriously rewarded: Matt. x. 40, 41, "He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

William Lee Lyons Brown, chairman of the Brown-Forman distillery, where Faversham worked, and a great southern charmer ("Ah wonder if you realize," he once told Sports Illustrated, "that Cassius Clay's aunt cooks for my double-first cousin?

That's got to be Nix," Benny said as he pulled the door open. "Hey, sweetie..." Morgie Mitchell and Lou Chong stood on the black porch. "Um," said Chong, "hello to you, too, sugar lumps.

Can I offer you some tea while you ransack our place?' Lockwood asked politely.

Conversation is but carving!Give no more to every guestThan he's able to digest.Give him always of the prime,And but little at a time.Carve to all but just enough,Let them neither starve nor stuff,And that you may have your due,Let your neighbor carve for you.

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

The only extra plates ever permitted are the bread and butter plates which are put on at breakfast and lunch and supper above and to the left of the forks, but never at dinner.

I never realized how much of the pleasure of dining out is watching people, otherwise it feels like ordering in with better utensils.

A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book)

Spread the table and contention will cease.

Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

We are trespassing on your hospitality

Cowboy: 'Come and see the barn.' Visitor: 'I've loved barns ever since I was a little girl.

Pastimes form the basis for the selection of acquaintances, and may lead to friendship. A party of women who drop in at each other's houses every morning for coffee to play "Delinquent Husband" are likely to give a cool reception to a new neighbor who wants to play "Sunny Side Up.

Mrs. Darling to May Pentecost who showed Mrs. Darling her room: "I shall unpack my china in here, if your husband will be kind enough to bring it up. I do think it's important to be surrounded by pretty things, don't you?

She even raised young geese in her large country kitchen and had three guest rooms, named Hope, Contentment, and Joy.