Quotes About Hospitality

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.

Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Treat everyone you meet as though they are the most important person you'll meet that day.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

Don't invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, " she used to warn me.

Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.