| Author |
Quotes |
| Aeschylus | What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? |
| Alexander Pope | For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. |
| Alexander Pope | For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. |
| Bible | Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. |
| Henrietta Mears | Hospitality should have no other nature than love. |
| Henry Jackson van Dyke | The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend. |
| Homer | Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the road-side and he entertained all men. |
| Homer | True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. |
| Indian Proverb | The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. |
| Max Beerbohm | When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. |
| Richard Hovey | For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear. |
| Sir Rabindranath Tagore | Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host. |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hospitality sitting with gladness. |
| John Milton | So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. |
| William Shakespeare | My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. |
| William Shakespeare | I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors You should not ruffle thus. |
| William Shakespeare | Be it not in thy care. Go, I charge thee, invite them all, let in the tide Of knaves once more, my cook and I'll provide. |
| William Shakespeare | Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. |
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