Hospitality Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

28 Hospitality Quotes
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“Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even though you wish they were”
Proverb Quotes
“There is no hospitality like understanding.”
Vanna Bonta Quotes
“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 Quotes
Source: Hospitality
“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.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
Source: Quits
“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.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Jeremiah (ch. IX, v. 2)
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Romans (ch. XII, v. 10-13)
“Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish,--so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.”
Sam Walter Foss Quotes
Source: House by the Side of the Road
“There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.”
Sam Walter Foss Quotes
Source: House by the Side of the Road
“He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare; He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer, Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care; His wine and beere to strangers were not spare, And yet beside to all that hunger greved, His gates were open, and they were there relived.”
Robert Greene Quotes
Source: A Maiden's Dream (l. 232)
“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 ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 12), (Lang's translation)
“True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 83), (Pope's translation)
“For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.”
Richard Hovey Quotes
Source: Spring
“Hospitality sitting with gladness.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Translation from Frithiof's Saga
“So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 331)
“No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes
Source: Miles Gloriosus (III, 3, 12)
“For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Satire II (bk. II, l. 159)
“My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: As You Like It (Corin at II, iv)
“I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors You should not ruffle thus.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii)
“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 Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, iv)
“Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?”
Sir Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
Source: Gardener (4)
“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.”
Henry Jackson van Dyke Quotes
Source: Inscription for a Friend's House
“A host in himself.”
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington Quotes
Source: said of Lord John Russell
“What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?”
Aeschylus Quotes
“The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.”
Indian Proverb Quotes
“Hospitality should have no other nature than love.”
Henrietta Mears Quotes