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Guests Quotes - Page 10

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.

"Merritt Wever: ‘Nurse’ Zoey May Have Secrets of Her Own". Interview with Jackie Strause, pagesix.com. July 31, 2009.

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.

"Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

"Think there’s too much excess at Christmas? I can’t get enough of it". www.independent.co.uk. December 21, 2012.

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. A discourse concerning the mechancial operation of the spirit. Abstract of the history of England ... Letters ... Poems ascribed to Swift”, p.107

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

"10 Questions With John Larroquette". Interview with Stacy Jenel Smith, www.aarp.org. March 17, 2011.