Quotes About Hospitality

My mother sits on my shoulder, and my mother: 'Be nice to everyone, son. Make sure you talk to everyone. Ask them a personal question, son. At least pretend like you're sincere.' And her final thing: 'Whoever you meet, make sure they leave your presence happy

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

What is the use of money if one cannot use it to make one's friends comfortable?

Au Quinze-Cents, on sert le monde. On vient fatigué de servir le monde. On se tanne donc de servir le monde...Mais en soirée, le monde...ah!

Bookstores attract the right kind of folk.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

The kind of people who spend their lives as permanent guests on a futon are not the kind of people you want to know.

Turns out I really like bookstores. You know, I meet a lot of people in my line of work. A lot of folks pass through Alice Island, especially in the summer. I've seen movie people on vacation and I've seen music people and newspeople, too. There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewoman.

Did you have a good time with Win?" Natty asked. "I'll tell you about it tomorrow." I lowered my voice. "He's still here." "Annie!" Her eyes grew wide and delighted. 'It's a long story and probably a lot less exciting than the one I suspect you're concocting, Natty. He's only using our couch.

Má»™t nÆ¡i tá»­ t? sao có th? thi?u ti?m sách ???c ch?, Izzie.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

No one spoke, The host, the guest, The white chrysanthemums. -Ry?ta

My master gives me bread and beer and every good thing.

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

Mrs. Windemere always had a cup of hot coffee waiting for me. Black, which, she said, was the only way to drink it if you wanted to be awake to serve the god of Creativity

I no longer call you servants,…I have called you friends."14 Servants is a "doing" word; friends is a "being" word. What do servants do? They cook, clean, et cetera. A friend, however, is something you are, not something you do. A servant is Martha, a friend is Mary.

Be Friendly and Smile from Within – Charismatic people are always friendly and project a certain warmth when they are interacting with people.

Colonel William F. Cody, otherwise known as "Buffalo Bill," was also a regular at the old Waldorf Astoria, and he was well known for never refusing a drink on another man's tab—when asked, he would say, "Sir, you speak the language of my tribe.

Dale is the man who mentored Audrey Saunders, who went on to open The Pegu Club in New York—one of the world's most renowned craft cocktail bars. Audrey has given birth to such delicious potions as the Gin-Gin Mule and the Old Cuban, both cocktails that have become global phenomena. DeGroff and Saunders have a lot to answer for.

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

When you give a feast, do not invite your friends or your rich neighbors, in case they might invite you in return, and you would be repaid," she said, gazing down at her hands on the bar. "Invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you.