Quotes About Hospitality

Tea to the English is really picnic indoors. Plenty of sandwiches and cookies and of course hot tea. We all used the same cups and plates. (Walker 2000: 116)

She was not so forbearing when it came to bad breath. After receiving one French envoy, she exclaimed, 'Good God! What shall I do if this man stay here, for I smell him an hour after he has gone!' Her words were reported back to the envoy, who at once betook himself back to France in shame.

At Sandwich, in 1579, she paid the magistrates' wives a great compliment when, without employing a food taster, she sampled some of the 160 dishes they had prepared for her and even ordered some to be taken to her lodgings so that she could eat them later.

The band had to stay in outhouses with stone floors," Jo Jo complained. "We got the impression they had only ever been used for animals. True, they had been swept out, but I was most unhappy. . . . We had an old-fashioned bathtub, and we had to fill it with hot water from pots and pans. [Even though] I was eight months pregnant, I was never offered a wash or a bath in Paul and Linda's place.

Of all the evenings it is possible to spend, a companionable evening with friends is the best.

being asked to dinner is not always the same thing as being asked to dine.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

My new companion was one of the worst cooks I have ever known. I thanked him for the meal, and since all I had to offer was some conversation, that's what we did. His name was Cullen, but he kept referring to himself as the Former House Nigger, as if it were a rank akin to general.

now she was doing what she did best—serving those who needed her most. She was remarkable that way, Luc thought. It was a gift she had, and he loved to see her use it. He stood in the doorway for a moment, watching her comfort each guest and get them settled in the living room or the dining room.

Plantar una iglesia en casa, o ser parte de un movimiento de iglesias en casas, tiene que ver con amar a las personas y atraerlas al Reino. Lo hermoso es la sencillez.

Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.