Quotes About Hospitality

Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.

Come, come, be every one officious To make this banquet; which I wish may prove More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.

Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.

I want the home about me: candles burning, curtains drawn, warmth, tea, friendship, love.

Dinner began at five and went on until seven forty. It was a meal worthy of the age, the house, and the season. Pea soup to begin, followed by a roast swan with sweet sauce, giblets, mutton steaks, a partridge pie, and four snipe. The second course was a plum pudding with brandy sauce, tarts, mince pies, custards, and cakes, all washed down with port wine and claret and Madeira and home-brewed ale. Ross felt that there was only one thing missing: Charles.

we might share this road as far as Trenwith?' 'You're staying with your uncle?' 'Yes.

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticise themselves more than enough.

Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come.

I will make you my brothers and table companions and give you a share of all our gains. To you, Xenophon, I will give my daughter, and, if you have a daughter, I will, according to the Thracian custom, buy her from you.

Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness, and, of course, there are the rooms for the new members of the household.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?

We were so glad to be away from the house. On the way home we stopped and had a sandwich at Bernice's restaurant and she insisted we stay overnight the rest of the week with her. Gratefully, we accepted. We only went back to the house to feed the dogs.

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing I have in my cupboard is a box of dried figs.

Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

I have been extremely positive with almost all new people. And why, let me ask, shan't I be? When you think, you have a lot of to say for someone you know for a short time.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover

Cúpoles la ración de dos copas por estómago: a la segunda quedó abierto el apetito del copeo, y las botellas fueron llegando una tras otra a pedimento de don Sebastián.

Simon, you gave me no water to wash my feet, but this woman as washed them with her tears. You gave me no kiss, but she has not ceased to kiss my feet. Do no reproach her Simon for you did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed me for my burial.

There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

God says: If you come to My House, I will come to yours.

Well now, lookie here? Some pretty strong lookin' dudes all lined up for us... Now that's what I call hospitality.