Quotes About Hospitality

When you are invited to a dinner, you are either a guest or you are part of a menu

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Open your arms to the world.

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

She cracked a window and put on some stew.

One did not visit another person's home lightly. Such a visit invariably expanded the dimensions of a relationship. p 86

There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs.

The notion of whether there would be some kind of organization in this potluck deal? Shouldn't somebody get on the phone and call the guest list? What if they ended up with too many deviled eggs? 'There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs,' said Cynthia.

God our Father, Lord and Savior, thank you for your love and favor, bless this food and drink we pray, and Irene who shares with me today. Amen.

Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's how you're brought up -- with Southerners, family (blood kin or not) is sacred; you respect others and are polite nearly to a fault; you always know your place but are fierce about your beliefs. And food along with college football -- is darn near a religion.

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

One cannot have too large a party.

Amy planted a glass of brandy beside the bride's cornflakes.

Well," Fred said. "Gotta go. You two come by for dinner soon. I'll barbecue something." Where Fred was concerned, that probably meant he'd shoot something first, then barbecue it, but that was fine by Tony. He'd eat barbecued yak if it meant being a part of this family

large bouquet of flowers beside a silver tray with a bottle of champagne and two flutes. A message in English.

But for us, sugar is more than just a sweetener: It's a symbol of hospitality, of good luck and happiness.

Our culture prides itself on the quality of our hospitality and courtesy. And of course we are entitled to demand that the tongue be cut out of anyone who impugns our honor, or that of any member of our family." The flicker of his smile did not reach his eyes.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words'...