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15 Quotes for 'Guests' in the Database.
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Guests Quotes
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For whom he means to make an often guest,
One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
Author: Bishop Joseph Hall
Source: Come Dine with Me
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Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
[Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 1, 15)
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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.
Author: John Masefield
Source: The Faithful
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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.
Author: Paul Elmer More
Source: said in an old Welsh door verse
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No, truly, 'tis more than manners will;
And I have heard it said, unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Bedford at II, ii)
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(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest.
(Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast,
And all-thing unbecoming.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth & Lady Macbeth at III, i)
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Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;
Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, ii)
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Methinks a father
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
That best becomes the table.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at IV, iv)
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See, your guests approach.
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Florizel at IV, iv)
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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.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Hymn to Mercury (st. 5)
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To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all
traces of their steps.
Author: Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Source: Gardener (45)
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Fish and visitors stink after three days.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
Author: George Herbert
Source: None
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When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
Author: Max Beerbohm
Source: None
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