Joseph Joubert 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.

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.

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

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

Manners form the great charm of women.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

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

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

I could stay here and pour tea and entertain the guests all day and I would be criticized.

The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.

In my opinion, if you're entertaining guests, you should do everything possible to make them comfortable.

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.