Quotes About Hospitality

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.

who came to greet them in the mistaken belief that they were merchants.

Si elle veut venir dans notre maison, moi mon idee, c'est qu'elle n'en partira jamais plus.

One pretended not to know that the body of a hostess was at the disposal of all comers, provided that her visiting list showed no gaps.

Pasaba largas horas encantadoras, a solas consigo mismo, el único invitado que olvidara invitar a comer durante su vida.

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house.

May you have the eyes to see That no visitor arrives without a gift And no guest leaves without a blessing.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

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When you serve a beer-cock an ear.

Will you stay to dinner? Adam asked. I will not be responsible for the murder of more chickens, said Samuel. Lee's got a pot roast. Well, in that case--

Strangers talked freely to one another without caution. I had forgotten how rich and beautiful is the countryside--the deep topsoil, the wealth of great trees, the lake country of Michigan handsome as a well-made woman, and dressed and jeweled. It seemed to me that the earth is generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue from it.

You keep out of my bed," said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.

They refused seconds and I insisted. And the division of thirds was put on the basis that there wasn't enough to save. And with the few divided drops of that third there came into Rocinante a triumphant human magic that can bless a house, or a truck for that matter-- nine people gathered in complete silence and the nine parts making a whole as surely as my arms and legs are a part of me, separate and inseparable.

Those people might have been murderers, sadists, brutes, ugly apish subhumans for all I knew, but I found myself thinking, "What charming people, what flair, how beautiful they are. How I wish I knew them." And all based on the delicious smell of soup.

Come along, said Joad. Pa'll be glad to see you. He always said you got too long a pecker for a preacher. He picked up his coat roll and tightened it snugly about his shoes and turtle.

It seemed to me that the earth was generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue from it.

How much is whiskey a gallon?" "I don't know," said Hughie. "I never get more than a half pint at a time myself—at one time that is. I figure you get a quart and right away you got friends. But you get a half pint and you can drink it in the lot before— well before you got a lot of folks around.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.