Guests Quotes
+5Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
- Johann Wolfgang
+1Fish and visitors smell in three days.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1Superior people never make long visits.
- Marianne Moore
+1After three days, fish and guests stink.
- John Lyly
+1Fish and guests in three days are stale.
- John Lyly
+1A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
- Johann Friedrich
+1Anger should never be an overnight guest.
- Neal A. Maxwell
+1Very sorry can’t come. Lie follows by post.
- Charles Beresford
+1Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
- Horace
+1If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
- Kahlil Gibran
+1Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
- Kin Hubbard
+1Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
- William Shakespeare
+1When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
- Max Beerbohm
+1Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
- Victor Borge
+1Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
- African Proverb
+1A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
- Homer J Simpson
+1If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
- Russian Proverb
+1A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
- George Herbert
+1Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses — once!
- Oscar Wilde
+1Visits always give pleasure – if not the arrival, the departure.
- Portuguese Proverb
+1When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
- John Harington
+1No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
+1My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1A host at a table where a guest is obliged to ask, is a host dishonored.
- La Petite Cuisine
+1Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you’d want to have dinner with.
- Rowan Atkinson
+1To the guests that must go, bid God’s speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
- Rabindranath Tagore
+1One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and Guests.
- Max Beerbohm
+1Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
- William Shakespeare
+1For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
+1Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.
- Maarten Maartens
+1Gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
- William Shakespeare
+1Gratitude is a twofold love — love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
- Henry Van Dyke
+1See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let’s be red with mirth.
- William Shakespeare
+1Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
- William Cowper
+1Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
- W.H. Auden
+1Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
- William Butler
+1We labor to make a house a home, then every time we’re expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.
- Robert Brault
+1Hospitality, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honour you.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
+1A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
- Ward McAllister
