Quotes About Hospitality

Ye'll wish a bath this evening, and while I don't mind servin' as yer cook, I'm not washin' yer back. I won't ask if of you, I promise.

As we've practiced it, Angus! Let him in, fetch him a glass of that horrid port we purchased in the village. When you're done, send Mary upstairs right away with a bucket of water. I need to wash. Angus paused, one large hand on the doorknob. Now? But MacLean's already here. She lifted her chin. I waited for MacLean; now he can wait for me . Angus grinned, Very well, miss.

Then you must also spend the night. We are miles from an inn, and I can promise you that the sheets are fresh and clean. And the beds are lumpier than those at any posting house.

Darman was determined to make him welcome. "'Cuy, vod'ika." He slapped the seat next to him. "Park your shebs there. We'd pour you some of the GAR-issue caf but we like you too much for that. We're waiting for Sergeant Kal." Corr sat down as ordered, and Niner and Atin leaned across to clasp his arm.

chairs were padded. The tables looked clean. There were napkin dispensers on the tables instead of rolls of cheap

He brought her a cup of tea, the first and last resource of an English husband.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

At dinner my man appeares.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!