Valentino Garavani Quotes

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

I like the joy when you feed people and they're happy and full and enjoying themselves.

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

I feel that when you take the responsibility to host something, it is your job to make sure that all your guests are taken care of equally.

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

It's fun to give pleasure to people.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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.

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.

Whether it's a big dinner party or people just coming over to hang out, I just love to spend time with them.

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!