Plautus Quotes

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.

Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.

It's only a certain amount of days your friend's mom is gonna let you stay at they crib without feeling some type of way. So I'd stay two or three days, then they mom would be like, 'What's up with him? He got to leave unless he gonna pay for something.'

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

I don't know what's wrong with it: if you commit a crime, you've overstayed our welcome. If I have guests in my house and if they start messing up my kitchen or start getting a fire in any sleeping room I would send them away.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

If it is a cocktail party, I think bringing your partner, husband or wife is fine. To a certain extent, when someone throws a party, they expect to have people over. If it's a seated dinner, though, you should check beforehand. Asking to bring your partner is fair. Asking to bring eight friends from college is not. A good hostess will always accommodate extras and stragglers, but she'll never forget who brought them.

It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.

When I'm at home and I'm preparing my own food, it's all gluten-free, or fish and it's healthy, but when I go to someone else's house, I'll eat what they put in front of me because I don't want to be an asshole.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.

Earrings are the same as sneezes: Two is okay, but ten in a row is annoying. If you have two then, God bless you.

many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.