Guests Quotes - Page 4

• If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

  Khalil Gibran

  House, Would Be, Hospitality

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• When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Horse, Character, House

  Oliver Goldsmith (1828). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale ...”, p.7

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• House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

  Erma Bombeck

  Long, House, Literature

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.297, Open Road Media

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• Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

  Hugo Claus

  Light, Feet, Laughing

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• I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

  Joan Van Ark

  New York, Stars, Play

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• The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friendship, Pests, Firsts

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• It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Happiness, Home, Men

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

  Aeschylus

  New Year, Feelings, Literature

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

  E. W. Howe

  New Year, Home, Ideals

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• Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

  Fannie Hurst

  Gestures, Host, Function

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• People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, House Guests, Sincere

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• A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

  William Feather

  Home, House, Hotel

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Sage, Welcome, Hospitality

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

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• Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

  Henry Wotton

  Love, Relationship, Breasts

  Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton, J. Hannah (1929). “The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh”, p.88, Рипол Классик

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• It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

  Homer

  Hospitality, Offensive, Speed

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.

  Emily Post

  Host, Hospitality, Invisible

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• The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

  Ina Garten

  Fun, Party, Important

  Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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• When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

  John Harington

  Cooking, Praise, Should

  'Epigrams' (1618) bk. 1, no. 5 'Against Writers that Carp at Other Men's Books'

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• And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.

  James Levine

  Depth, Littles, Used

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• To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Needs, Enjoy, Oneself

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.14, University of Georgia Press

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• Fish and visitors stink in three days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Benjamin Franklin, Bessie W. Johns (comp) (1942). “Poor Richard comes to Life”

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• Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Christmas, Witty

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• We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be a failing in respect to neglect the divine Guest who awaits us? He dwells there, really present, He who was present in the crib, at Nazareth, upon the mountains of Judea, in the supper-room, upon the Cross. It is the same Jesus who said to the Samaritan woman, 'If thou didst know the gift of God!'

  Columba Marmion

  Jesus, Mountain, Rooms

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• Anger should never be an overnight guest.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Anger, Should

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