Quotes About Hospitality

I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.

Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

A road to a friend's house is never long.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.

Here's a dime. Call all your friends.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

Thank you for your coffee, seignior. I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.

I just want to make my friends laugh. I want to make them feel that if they had a bad day I could be someone who provides dinners or atmospheres or weekends where we can all sort of go away and relax and sort of spend time with each other. I definitely like organizing things socially. Do I cook for them? No, no, no. I provide a place and some wine and we just try and make each other laugh.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

When the belly is full the mind is amongst the maids

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking