Hospitality Quote by Emily Brontë

“It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger, but better visit an occasion of people we know well.”

— Toba Beta

“It is best to know something of your host before arriving at his house.”

— M. L. Forman

“An unexpected guest, enjoying such lavish hospitality, should expect to sing for his supper.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

“Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.”

— Randy Pausch

“Think of this visit as an opportunity for a different kind of learning, then. Another day will put some other plate on your table,…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.”

— Philippa Gregory

“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I truly hate being a guest in someone's home...Worst of all, you have to 'make nice' at all hours. I don't want someone across…

— Sue Grafton

“The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.”

— Lindsey Davis

“A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not…

— James Whitcomb Riley

“this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly easy. I know my own strength, and I shall never be embarrassed again by his coming.…

— Jane Austen

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape…

— Maurice Renard