Hostesses Quotes

• A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Tasks, Host

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• Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Party, Soup

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  Emily Post

  Believe, Guests, Helping

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• In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

  Emily Post

  Perfect, House, Attention

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.429, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Change, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Party, Literature, Cabinets

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Party, Sweat, Way

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• It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Fearless, Ignorant

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.4026, Delphi Classics

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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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• Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne, some green grapes - light, bubbly and slightly tart - all served up by an egocentric but inventive hostess.

  Cathleen McGuigan

  Book, Thinking, Lunch

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• A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and returning along the course of its own sweet river music; while the semicolon brings clauses and thoughts together with all the silent discretion of a hostess arranging guests around her dinner table.

  Pico Iyer

  Sweet, Rivers, Mind

  Pico Iyer (2011). “Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions”, p.431, Vintage

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• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
  Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Guests, Nails

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Good Food

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• Thirteen at a table is unlucky only,
  when the hostess has only twelve chops.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Twelve, Tables

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• People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mother, Fun, Party

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• If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

  John Cowper Powys

  Purpose, Action, Compromise

  John Cowper Powys (1944). “The art of growing old”

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• And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Party, Privacy, Host

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

  Emily Deschanel

  Jobs, New York, Father

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• Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Character, Successful, Knives

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• My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Nice, Health, Southern

  A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Jobs, Political, Different

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• Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Giving, Dinner

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• It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?

  Princess Margaret

  Mother, New York, Queens

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• Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, Japan, Average

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

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• My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Home, Hands

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