Quotes About Hospitality

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

I always think that the essence of a good dinner- or breakfast-party is not the tablecloth, nor even the nature of the food, but the company. I think precisely the same concerning the Lord's Supper.

Would you like a tuna-salad sandwich?' 'Yes,' God said. 'Thank you.

Podnios?am ko?dr? i zaprosi?am go do siebie, ale poniewa? nie jestem Czu?ostkowa ani Sentymentalna, nie b?d? si? dalej nad tym rozwodzi?.

They called me by my first name and bought me drinks.

Es decir, que está debe ser la forma de hospitalidad de la gente verdaderamente elegante. Recibir al visitante y, a continuación, olvidarse de él. Y por añadidura, disponer de manera desordenada alrededor del visitante delicioso sake y exóticos manjares. No hay baile ni música preparados con la evidente finalidad de dar la bienvenida al visitante... Este, por su parte, no tiene necesidad de poner una cara especial para demostrar ex profeso su admiración.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

You are a guesthouse and your guests for but a few days are alternatively sorrows and joys.

We are ever mindful of succor bestowed, of hospitality received; where we have eaten bread there do we ever go with remembrance and thanksgiving; wo have not learned your art of oblivion, your science of neglect; we cannot turn upon the hand that once tendered us food; we cannot make a mockery of the kindliness that onco befriended us; we cannot emulate you there—we are but dogs.

Our gentlemen visitors ain't allowed no more than a smile and a squeeze in the public rooms, for I won't 'ave Sodom and Gomorrah under my roof. I always tell my girls, I tell them, 'Ladies, just show the boys enough to give them a proper 'int of what they're in for. And close your door be'ind you when you're entertaining, for a gentleman is easily embarrassed.

Wow, dude, come in,' said Tommy [Lee], when I rang the door-bell. 'I can't believe it. Ozzy Osbourne's in my house.'

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

I was adopted into the Muchquauh, the Bear Clan, of the Muhheconneok people when I reached manhood. The grannies got so tired of my bein' forever at their fires eatin' their food that they decided to make me part of the family so they could quit treatin 'me like a guest and send me out to fish.

Dizer Bonjour é reconhecera humanidade da outra pessoa. É sinalizar que você a vê como pessoa, não como alguém que tem que servir você.

No habit of the heart is more crucial to making "We the People" a reality than extending hospitality to those who appear alien to us.

Our Heavenly Father - you established the criteria for hospitality in your Holy Word and then provided the strength to apply it to daily living. Eternity will not be long enough for us to express our love and gratitude to you!

You are not a beggar at the table of life. You are the honored guest.

Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

Coffee or orange juice?" "Water is fine." His eyebrows went up. "Uh-oh," Auriele said, but she was smiling. Darryl was not. "Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?

Warren and his boyfriend had put on a Thanksgiving dinner for their friends who didn't have families to go home to. Being gay meant they had a number of friends with no welcoming families. Mary