"A table full of welcome makes scarce..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”

“Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?”

“Speak me fair in death.”

“The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.”

“Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.”

“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”

“By moderation one can be generous.”

“Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.”

“Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.”