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.
John Masefield
Quotes , Source: The Faithful
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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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quotes , Source: Hymn to Mercury (st. 5)
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For whom he means to make an often guest,
One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
Bishop Joseph Hall
Quotes , Source: Come Dine with Me
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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.
Paul Elmer More
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Winter's Tale (Florizel at IV, iv)
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