Quotes About Hospitality

Disney's mission isn't to build theme parks. It's to "create happiness." The Ritz-Carlton isn't in the business of providing beds for heads, but it's in the business of fulfilling the expressed and unexpressed wishes of their guests. Starbucks isn't in the business of coffee as much as it's in the business to inspire and nurture the human spirit.

Right this way, ladies," the maître

Norville invited him in the first place.

I've made some feuillantines ," he tells us with a dramatic rising of his eyes heavenward, indicating bliss. "Thin slivers of wafer flavored with ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon." We coo our approval. "You have to try them." Quite frankly, who are we to argue?

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

Chcia?em tylko pog?aska? kociaka, a przyj??em go pod swój dach.

If anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because of me, he will not lose his reward,' quoted Jonathan softly.

I scarcely noticed the time passing. Miss Cross was kind enough to entertain me in the meantime." Papa chuckled. "I cannot fault you for forgetting me, then. She's far better company than I!" Hastings gave Eliza a warm glance. "I cannot disagree.

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

Being Danish, all you have is your supple grip and your light touch. There are plenty of places in the world where the guest who extends a weaponless hand is the most welcome. A man from a small and weak country is as good as stateless. Just wave your Danish flag. They won't see a white cross against a red background as a crusading banner; they'll just see it as a white cloth. So wrap yourself in its innocence, lao-yeh .

His name was Mr. Quan and he was the concierge, which explained the black suit and the lavender shirt but not the oversized bow tie in chrome-yellow silk. Perhaps nothing could.

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace edged into the doorway, sizing up Magnus with his eyes. "Even if one of them spills a drink on my new shoes?" "Even then.

Was Juan a recherché welcome guest

but that the invitation didn't include eatables and drinkables.  A gentleman who was standing at the bar

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.

A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.

You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:So I did sit and eat.

The waiter roars it through the hall:"We don't give bread with one fish ball!"

There are some occasions when you must not refuse a cup of tea, otherwise you are judged an exotic and barbarous bird without any hope of ever being able to take your place in civilised society. If you are invited to an English home, at five o'clock in the morning you get a cup of tea. It is either brought in by a heartily smiling hostess or an almost malevolently silent maid.

I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you into dishonor. I swear it by the old gods and the new. Arise.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale," Ser Arlan had once told him, "it may be a year before you see another.

There were four of them, Catelyn saw. An old man in the black of the Night's Watch, two servants … and Tyrion Lannister, standing there small and bold as life. "My men will sleep in your stable, and as for myself, well, I do not require a large room, as you can plainly see." He flashed a mocking grin. "So long as the fire's warm and the straw reasonably free of fleas, I am a happy man.