Quotes about Hospitality
Despite his business success, Nabi keeps everything in perspective. When we were at the conference together, Nabi told me, "We aren't in the coffee business, serving people. We're in the people business, serving coffee.
— John Maxwell
Mother Teresa said, "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
— John Maxwell
Starbucks was delivering more value than just coffee; they were delivering a sense of sophistication and enthusiasm about life.
— Donald Miller
baby-sitting their roast in his oven? Who knew what he would be doing for them next?
— Lynn Austin
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
— Lewis Carroll
If you cannot afford a carpet, let your rooms be carpeted with smiles and welcomes, fastened down with the nails of kind words driven in with the hammer of patience. Such a carpet will not fade in the sun, and constant use will never wear it away.
— James Allen
The local church, too, has table servers. We call them "deacons." The joy, peace, unity, and fruitfulness of the local church depends in part on having a cadre of faithful table servants who are present when needed, eager to serve without being intrusive.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
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
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
A good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
— Virginia Woolf
The human frame being what it is, heart, body, and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well
— Virginia Woolf
Never will I wake those echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again, I vowed as I descended the steps in anger. Still an hour remained before luncheon, and what was one to do?
— Virginia Woolf