Quotes about Hospitality

Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.

I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner.

Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

there is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue, and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley, not to mention new-laid eggs, to be brought up warm in a napkin, and hot buttered toast. For

How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.

For the sharing of bread is not such a simple thing nor is its acknowledgement. Whatever thanks be given, however spoke or written down.

Those people would take you in and put you up and feed you and feed your horse and cry when you left.

He could only say the one thing he was afraid to say: Will you hide in my house, master?

Say 'Hello' in tones that bespeak how pleased you are to have the person call.

This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger, It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous . . . . I make appointments with all, I will not have a single person slighted or left away, I will not have a single person slighted or left away, The keptwoman and sponger and thief are hereby invited . . . . the heavy-lipped slave is invited . . . . the venerealee is invited, There shall be no difference between them and the rest.

And they ate supper before they said grace...Oh, um...she moved into his house, stayed awhile, and then they got married.