Quotes About Hospitality

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

The woman from across the street edged along the side porch with some silver-wrapped casserole thing clutched to her chest like a shield.

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

Endlessly welcoming and hospitable, particularly up here. It didn't necessarily mean she belonged, did it?

Life was always easier, reflected Issy, when you were carrying a large Tupperware full of cakes. Everyone was happy to see you then.

but I can tell she doesn't appreciate being offered a drink in her own home by someone who doesn't live there.

Why serve peanuts right out of the can, when we can put them in a nice bowl, right?" "Peanuts taste like peanuts no matter the receptacle." "They'd taste more elegant served out of a crystal bowl.

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

Ben told me that in Greek culture it has historically been considered both a duty and an honor to take care of strangers. You can see it with the villagers. The way they go out to rescue people in their boats or bring food to the exhausted ones on the beach. In ancient times, the gods used to test mortals by arriving on their doorsteps clothed in rags to see if they would be welcomed or turned away.

We don't serve time travelers here. A time traveler walks into the bar.

Quiet customers get served first.

It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother—good soul!—gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all—five pounds—and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed.

We need to ask ourselves, "In what way do others see salvation dwelling in my house?

Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon.

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

If you can afford it, buy it. Always offer your friends the best that you can and have it in prodigious abundance.

Nie ka?dy ma takie ?ycie, ?eby nadawaÅ'o siÄ™ na dom dla niego, który bÄ™dzie mógÅ' dekorowa? coraz bogatszymi meblami wspomnieÅ". Niektórzy mieszkajÄ… w hotelach, w niejednym hotelu. Lata zatrzaskujÄ… siÄ™ za nimi jak drzwi hoteli - i jedyne, co im pozostaje, to odrobina odwagi, ale nikt ich nie ?aÅ'uje.

Der Stolz mancher französischer Hoteliers besteht darin, daß sie die Fremden hassen, von denen sie leben.

As long as there was tea, there was England.

That's one trouble about the raids. . . People do nothing but make tea and expect you to drink it.