guest etiquette Quotes

Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

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

If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.

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

Well, the American public always wanted to vote for a guy — and Bush was the perfect guy — who they'd want to have over for pot-roast. And George Bush is that guy. He does that well. You'd like to have him over for pot-roast. He reminds you of yourself. Okay. Well, now he's been over, he's had the pot-roast. But he's getting drunk and now he's talking about stem cells and Terri Schiavo and gay marriage. And now he's the guest that won't leave.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

Thou shalt not take moochers into thy hut?

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

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.

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.

Wine ever paies for his loding.