Quotes About Hospitality

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

Come in the evening, come in the morning, Come when expected, come without warning; Thousands of welcomes you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come, the more we'll adore you.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.

I love you... and always I have a chair for you in the smallest parlor in the world, to wit, my heart.

Hello is your passport.

A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Because of Christ's prevenient and unconditional invitation, the fellowship of the table cannot be restricted to people who are 'faithful to the church', or to the 'inner circle' of the community. For it is not the feast of the particularly righteous, of the people who think that they are particularly devout; it is the feast of the weary and heavy-laden, who have heard the call to refreshment.

How's it going down there? It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

Thanks, Lieutenant. Casey's going to be really excited about Saturday. Um, can we bring something? Like what? A dish? We have dishes. We have lots of dishes. He means food, Peabody interpreted. Don't worry about it, Trueheart. They're got plenty of that, too. Why would somebody bring food when they're coming to your place to eat? Eve wondered when Trueheart hurried after Baxter. It's a social nicety.

Mattie hurried in, carrying a lowball glass of amber liquid with a twist of orange on a small tray. Like a skilled waitress she set a cocktail napkin on the table beside Jefferson, put the glass on it.

Can you work in a stop by the Miras' sometime today?

Ilga viešnag? nepadeda draugystei.

Please, if you would, the butler said, no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone? -Fritz

When she didn't continue, he shrugged. Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy

Qhuinn took a step forward, with the intention of stepping in, in the event the Brother locked hands on the SOB's skinny neck: Someone should probably catch the head before it bounced all over their hosts' rugs. And the deadweight of the body. Seemed only hospitable.

and Billy rolled in. "Thought you might like some wake-up." Bingo

and remember what Somerset Maugham said. 'To dine well in England it's necessary to have breakfast three times a day.

string. There was a roast lamb to

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind. But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

one of the biggest troubles hitchhiking is having to talk to innumerable people, make them feel that they didn't make a mistake picking you up, even entertain them almost, all of which is a great strain when you are going all the way and don't plan to stay in hotels.

We didn't know what to expect. Where will he sleep? What's he going to eat? Are there any girls for him? It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantua; preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting exstasies.