168 Quotes About Guests

Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

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

I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world....

The landlord will trusts his guests as he trusts himself

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.

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.

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.