Quotes About Hospitality

I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.

Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.

Combray, we used often to invite him to our house.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Once the pasta is sauced, serve it promptly, inviting your guests and family to put off talking and start eating.

back for some lunch?

I borrowed a quote from Oscar Wilde and put it at the top of the menu: "To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people—that is all.

Oh, that's lovely wrist action you've got there. Fancy coming into the larder with me and earning yourself five woodbines?

One of the reasons that people enjoy coming to a great restaurant is that when an extraordinary meal is placed in front of them, they feel honored, respected, and even a little bit loved.

I carried Torsten's plate over to the table, placing

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

The dining area of the Premier Inn is geared to dispel elderly apprehensions, not to reinforce them. It is noisy and colourful and full of large busy middle-era middle England middle-aged people talking loudly and cheerfully and eating highly coloured meals, most of them from the hot red end of the spectrum.

The Latin word companion means literally "a person with whom we share bread"; so that every company, from actors' guild to Multinational Steel, shares in the significance evoked in breaking bread.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.