#Hospitality Quotes

“A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”

“We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.”

“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.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.”

“Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet”

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”

“But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.”

“Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.”

“So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.”

“We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.”

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”

“Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.”

“I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”

“You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."”

“Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.”

“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.”

“Room service? Send up a larger room.”

“My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.”

“A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.”

“I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.”

“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.”

“One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.”

“The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.”

“True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.”

“For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.”

“Joe gave me some more gravy.”

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”

“The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast”

“If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.”

“Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.”

“There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.”

“The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.”