Quotes
Quotes about Guest
This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.
The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest. [Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]
Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid. We two have talked our hearts out to the embers, And now go hand in hand down to the dead.
Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, such no longer be; If foe, our love shall conquer thee.
No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest. (Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten, It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming.
Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.
You must come home with me and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do All that is in my power to honour you.
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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.
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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.]
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.
