Quotes About Hospitality

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.

The Queen was coming to Henry's

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook. KING HENRY IV, PART II, 5.1 Kickshaws, the Elizabethan misspelling of the French quelque chose, "a little something," refers to dishes we now categorize as appetizers or hors d'oeuvres.

If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an expert on the period. He was not, but he knew enough about it to be able to advise her roughly, and was far too flattered by the earnest way in which she listened to gather that actually she knew a great deal more about the points in question than he did.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

What he meant was that he had fixed some vegetarian slop with lentils and bean-curd lumps and weird-tasting fake cheese, and that we were welcome to have a crack at choking some of it down. So Sam Hellerman hightailed it out of there. Lucky bastard.

At home the boys were greeted by the aroma of fried chicken that their mother was preparing. "You're just in time," she said, smiling.

At this point, Mrs. Hardy brought the discussion to an end by setting before each boy a stack of steaming, golden-brown pancakes. Aunt Gertrude came in behind her with a block of yellow butter and a tall pitcher of maple syrup. "There are more cakes on the griddle," she said. "You need your strength.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations.

He liked her. And he brought her food.

Shallan had found that no matter how bad things got, someone would be making tea.

You came all this way, leaving behind luxury, to eat some pancakes." "Really awesome pancakes.

We brought company, I told her. All of it.

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

You're my friends now. We're having soft tacos later.