Quotes about Hospitality

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse.

Italy will always have the best food.

We break bread with the hungry[78] and share our home with them[79] for the sake of Christ's love, which belongs to the hungry as much as it does to us. If the hungry do not come to faith, the guilt falls on those who denied them bread. To bring bread to the hungry is preparing the way for the coming of grace.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back.

We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and we slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Everybody had his arms on everybody else's shoulders, and they were all singing. Mike was sitting at the table with several men in their shirt-sleeves, eating from a bowl of tuna fish, chopped onions and vinegar. They were all drinking wine and mopping up the oil and vinegar with pieces of bread. "Hello, Jake. Hello!" Mike called. "Come here. I want you to meet my friends. We are all having an hors d'œuvre.