Quote by H.G. Wells

“No hotels in the past participle, no subjunctive modes, no conjunctivitis.”

— Henry Miller

“It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all...”

— Nancy Mitford

“All of cleanliness is neither embraced nor denied by the taking of cold baths.”

— Kathleen Norris

“(It was also helpful that the hotel’s owner tended to turn a blind eye to room sharing. A room filled with too many guests…

— Maureen Johnson

“Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.”

— Rohinton Mistry

“You can pay for whatever you want, but I just want to warn you that I prefer to stay at places that don’t start…

— Elle Lothlorien

“...a complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.”

— Umberto Eco

“These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on those pegs. Even the flies,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.”

— Donald Ray Pollock

“A depressing musty scent pervaded the place, as if a cheese had recently died there in painful circumstances.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed,…

— Mary Stewart

“You are responsible for the odor you leave in your wake.”

— R. A. Delmonico