Quotes About Hospitality

We shall serve him lies and Arbor gold, and he'll drink them down and ask for more.

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

Robb, listen to me. Once you have eaten of his bread and salt, you have the guest right, and the laws of hospitality protect you beneath his roof.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale. It may be a year before you see another.

Places like that, the people have no silver, but they feed us at their own tables, and the children follow us everywhere

point had been reached, the host, his business done, took his guests back to town in the automobile upon which he had not as yet paid a cent, dropping them

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

dropped in on my old shepherd friend Yani who provided us with some bread and fig cake and a straw hat full of wild strawberries to sustain us.

The sliding doors between the dining-room and drawing-room had been pulled back and the vast room thus formed was a riot of flowers, balloons and paintings, the long tables with their frost-white cloths sparkling with silver, the side tables groaning under the weight of the cold dishes.

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper, he would have asked for separate checks!

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

Send these, the homeless, tempest toss'd, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

If any of you are related to our main guest, let me know so I can speak slowly.

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

Superior people never make long visits.

The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in.