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Guests Quotes - Page 7

Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Robert Whitelaw (1938). “Ten Greek Plays”

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: Letters, 1788-1799. Papers in the Connoisseur. Letter from an owl to a bird of paradise. Fragment of an intended commentary on Paradise lost. Account of the treatment of his hares”, p.334

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.332

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3775, Delphi Classics

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.486, Simon and Schuster