Quotes About Hospitality

I love cooking and having people over and it means you don't have to get a babysitter.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

I don't do the show business lifestyle, you'll never see me rolling out of parties with a goody bag in my hand. My night out is a night in, with friends round for dinner.

The way I got through thinking that I was very boring and very unsparkly was by being the first person in the bar and being the person that bought the drinks for everyone.

I'd actually quite like to try working behind a bar for a while. I'd give that a go.

People connect to a good bar very personally.

I hate barbecues in the U.K., they're always put together by people who don't cook.

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

A lot of the bars are really nice to me now because they've heard me on the radio.

Truth is, I love to play bartender and assist my husband at the BBQ.

I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.

Beef is not allowed in my house.

I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

I always start off being nice to anyone I first meet.

This is what you need to do in a luxury business: look for people who will like being there every day.

finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans….

have apparent confidence in all, real confidence in none, until from actual experience it is found that the individual is worthy of it—from this rule I have never departed.… When I have found men mere politicians, bending to the popular breeze and changing with it, for the self-popularity, I have ever shunned them, believing that they were unworthy of my confidence—but still treat them with hospitality and politeness.

It tends to be more difficult to oppose—or at least to vilify—someone with whom you have broken bread and drunk wine. Caricatures

the very fact that I felt a moment's qualm on inviting him because of his color made me ashamed of myself and made me hasten to send the invitation.

Writing in 1783, George Washington had articulated what we like to think of as the American way on such things: "The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions.

When I have found men mere politicians, bending to the popular breeze and changing with it, for the self-popularity, I have ever shunned them, believing that they were unworthy of my confidence—but still treat them with hospitality and politeness.

And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.

The world can be divided between people who can get a waiter's attention and those who can't.