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Quotes About Hospitality

Lord Abbot, before I serve you the first portion to taste, can I suggest jugged hare for our next banquet?
~ Brian Jacques
Ambrose shrugged his spikes moodily. "I don't suppose you'd like me to fetch your lunch, dinner, tea'n'supper too. Huh!" "Oh, and Ambrose, would you ask Winifred to fetch our lunch, dinner, tea and supper out here? This is going to be a long job!
~ Brian Jacques
If you walk into a woman's apartment and nothing's out of place, you know she's not going to want to stay in bed all day and order in Chinese food and eat it in bed. She's going to make you get up and eat toast at the kitchen table.
~ Candace Bushnell
Montana turned out to be better than he had expected, wide-open and friendly, with a few exceptions. A desk clerk at the motel in Missoula shot him a hard look when she saw the name on the credit card. Being a Garcia from Miami wasn't easy these days. Some people automatically assumed you had six kilos in the trunk and a loaded Uzi under the front seat.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I also brought some berries." She pulled out a cloth bundle. "I thought you might like something sweet. Can I share them with you?" He eyed her up and down. "I guess you're small enough, you couldn't eat that many.
~ Terry Goodkind
It was always a good idea to bring food when going to see Zedd.
~ Terry Goodkind
Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
~ Terry Pratchett
Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.
~ Terry Pratchett
We try to make guests feel welcome, said Dee, scuttling behind his desk. He pulled off his pointed hat and, to Vimes's amazement, put on a pair of thick smoked glasses. You had papers? he said. Vimes handed them over. It says here His Grace, the dwarf said, after reading them for awhile. Yes, that's me. And there's a sir. That's me, too. And an excellency. 'fraid so. Vimes narrowed his eyes. I was blackboard monitor for awhile, too.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was amazing to see that all people needed to make them happy was food and drink and other people.
~ Terry Pratchett
A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.
~ Terry Pratchett
Whoever said that a soft answer turneth away wroth had never worked in a bar.
~ Terry Pratchett
Angela Rizzoli's worst fear was that someone, someday, would leave her house hungry.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Suppose a friend who has come a long way to visit is having a cup of tea with us. Mindfulness helps the time we spend with her to be a time we won't forget.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Nobody is in the world should be deprived of the joys of eating.
~ R. Madhavan
I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
~ Burt Lancaster
Julia Child came to my house and wanted a lesson in making risotto.
~ Lidia Bastianich
Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.
~ Lauren Daigle
Have I met Justin Timberlake? I have! I've been to his house.
~ Kimberley Nixon
There's so much to do in Paducah, Kentucky... Paducah's pretty cool, man.
~ Ricochet
I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.
~ Brian Chesky
You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!
~ Jack Monroe
Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Jews are an important part of our kingdom, and I am happy you chose to gather here in our country.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco