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Guests Quotes - Page 5

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.2262, Delphi Classics

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.100

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.93

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.

Thomas Campbell (1853). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With a Memoir of His Life ...”, p.37

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.73

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.82, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

"Prabal Gurung on His Love Affair with Women, SS13 Campaign, and Target Collection". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. January 31, 2013.