Unwelcome Guest Quotes

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard

Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.

Go home. Let me do my community service.

Paramore will be the neighbor that comes over for tea and never leaves.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

I read the script [Havenhurst] and I went to bed, but I woke up because somebody had knocked on my door. Or at least it seemed like somebody knocked on my door at, like, 4 in the morning.

I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart." Artemis put two and two together and arrived at a very unpleasant four. "You were here to rob me!" "No, I wasn't. How dare you?!

I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

I am not a fan of tarantulas.

I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.

No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.