Quotes About Hospitality

Solo iba a decir que, si todavía no tienes que irte, puedes venir conmigo a mi casa y te enseño mi habitación o algo. Pero son casi las seis… —Y yo iba a decir que, si no vais a cenar todavía, a lo mejor puedo ir a tu casa y ver tu habitación.

Oh, I would just love to talk to you sometime, maybe we could have lunch,' she recalled. But Graham politely declined, explaining to the governor's wife that he did not dine alone with women - be they single or married. 'Oh, well, I'm sorry,' Hillary said. 'Maybe we could have a lot of people there.' Graham replied that he would think about it. ... And so five people sat down at a found table in Little Rock's ornate Capital Hotel that fall.

Putting out crackers and cheese is reasonable when visitors show up with wine, but not when they arrive with cyanide.

welcome him. And in the dark crowded alleyways of the

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

Good food isn't just about the taste. It's about where and with whom you eat it.

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

One of the less appealing attributes of the American experience is the desire to shut the door on anyone coming in behind you.

Jack Daniels. Damn, she broke out the good stuff for him.

Fursey was now eating—and drinking, always drinking—at Mulstan's expense, not her uncle's. The gift of kings, her mother said: to make others pay.

Men, I have found, are more generous when their bellies are full.

When your king arrives in a blood-splashed boat and departs in a hurry-leaving behind a favoured kinswoman and her household for whom he demands hospitality, you give it. It doesn't matter that she's only ten. It matters that she's the subject of a prophecy and has the most direct and uncanny gaze of any maid you've ever seen, and that one wrong word to the king would mean being staked out for the ravens.

Mead was the key to good fellowship. A better gift, sometimes, than gold.

To your cabin," Tammy said. "May you have many dinners in front of this fire, with people you care for.

Christ wasn't their god, some muttered, not yet. But most didn't care. They were happy to eat.

Her smile was warm, her hand pressure brief but sincere, and her makeup flawless.

I'm not a vampire. If you invite me in, you can always get rid of me later.

Booze and puppies," said Sara under her breath to me. "The best social lubricants in North America.

The high point of every meal was never the food itself, he taught us, but always the act of sharing it.

led the arrivals back to their private

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

And now, at length, in my declining years, I am seeking a corner in which to eke out the remainder of my miserable existence, while at the present moment I am enjoying the hospitality of a neighbour of your acquaintance.

It's a pity you didn't have a little more brandy. It might have made you more agreeable!