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House Guests Quotes

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

Ward McAllister
Dinner Guests, House Guests, Sacred
Ward McAllister (1890). “Society as I Have Found it”

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

Confucius
House, Leaving, House Guests

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Max Beerbohm
Art, Soul, House Guests
Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.91, 1st World Publishing

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Anton Chekhov
People, House Guests, Sincere

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

Margaret Way
Law, House Guests, Firsts

I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

Alfred North Whitehead
Two, House Guests, Forget
Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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