168 Quotes About Guests

Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.

In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.

Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest.

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.

Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave

You're my guest, and hosts generally do feed their guests, you know."Her natural ebullience returning, she flashed him an impish smile. "Even when their guests have landed them in a most delicate predicament?""Especially then. Well-fed guests make less trouble.

Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come in and spread their mats in the corners and urinate in the rose bushes and sit down to eat as many times as they want, and belch and rant and muddy everything with their boots, and let them do whatever they want to us, because that's the only way to drive off ruin.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was indescribable; the house and garden would be dotted with poets, authors, artists, and playwrights arguing, painting, drinking, typing, and composing. Far from being the ordinary, charming people that Larry had promised, they all turned out to be the most extraordinary eccentrics who were so highbrow that they had difficulty in understanding one another.