Hedy Lamarr Quotes

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved.

If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Wherever I went the Indians treated me honorably and gave me food …

I would always make the mansion available, or send a plane or a car to pick them [former governors] up.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

From where I came from, the way I was raised, when somebody does something for you, you always want to give something back to them.

My momma says whenever you go to somebody's house, you have to give them something. Don't come empty-handed.

I like to greet anyone who comes to my house with a lot of positivity and peace.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.