| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | Fish and visitors stink after three days. |
| Bishop Joseph Hall | For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. |
| George Herbert | A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. |
| John Masefield | Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid. We two have talked our hearts out to the embers, And now go hand in hand down to the dead. |
| Max Beerbohm | When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. |
| Paul Elmer More | Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, such no longer be; If foe, our love shall conquer thee. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honour you. |
| Sir Rabindranath Tagore | To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. |
| William Shakespeare | No, truly, 'tis more than manners will, And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. |
| William Shakespeare | Here's our chief guest. If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming. |
| William Shakespeare | Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks, Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night. |
| William Shakespeare | Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table. |
| William Shakespeare | See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. |
| William Shakespeare | Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. |
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