Guests Quotes

“Hospitality”

“Fish and guests in three days are stale.”

“Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.”

“Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.”

“Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.”

“Guest”

“guest”

“To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.”

“Methinks a father
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
That best becomes the table.”

“For whom he means to make an often guest,
One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.”

“Here's our chief guest.
If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast.”

“See, your guests approach:
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.”

“You 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.”

“Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art;
If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;
If stranger, such no longer be;
If foe, our love shall conquer thee.”

“Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers
Sweet courteous things unsaid.
We two have talked our hearts out to the embers,
And now go hand in hand down to the dead.”