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Bless her southern hospitality-filled heart. — Rachel Van Dyken

Fine hospitality," said I, "to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you. — H.G.Wells

The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.
- The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism — Mark Twain

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality. — Samuel Johnson

A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820." — John Hodgman

Asking a Southern woman for plain hospitality was like winking at a leprechaun: She had to give up her pot of gold no matter what. — Walter Mosley

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. — Homer

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men! — Jeremiah

True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form. — Sheila Ostrander

Anybody that's been in Indiana for five minutes knows that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's a reality. — Mike Pence

Hospitality is simply love on the loose. — Joan D. Chittister

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another. — Richard Llewellyn

We are trespassing on your hospitality — Eric Ambler

after all, hospitality was a virtue, one of the highest in Mamma's esteem. — Kristen Heitzmann

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality. — Elizabeth Bibesco

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice. — Auliq Ice

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit. — Jack Vance

The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth. — Sally Mann

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

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. — Francis Atterbury

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? — Harper Lee

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

Hospitality doesn't have to be perfect, just heartfelt. - Susan A. Karas — Gary Chapman

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships. — Seneca The Younger

I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps. — Paul Auster

Accepting a man's hospitality is a token of good will, a declaration that you and your host stand on terms of a civilized relationship. — Ayn Rand

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. — Philip Sidney

I love like I'm thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand? — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works. — Kurt Meyer

No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far. — Daniel Humm

Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable. — Adam LiVecchi

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. — Al Capone

Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people. — Danny Meyer

Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club, a members-only society. — Diana Butler Bass

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself. — Geoffrey Zakarian

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark. — Walter De La Mare

Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. — Sam Palladio

Beware the hospitality of the sociopath. — Don Winslow

I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is. — Kingsley Amis

Hospitality is the act of making people feel at home - when you wish they were. — Renee Garrison

Kitchen's always open. — Jason Medina

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam. — Patrick Henry

Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. — Jonathan Swift

In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world. — Conrad Hilton

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests. — Eleanor Roosevelt

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship. — Laurence J. Peter

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war. — Charles Eastman

Well now, lookie here? Some pretty strong lookin' dudes all lined up for us ... Now that's what I call hospitality. — Hiro Mashima

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosity
Show gratitude for life, light and every little beauty. — Debasish Mridha

Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient. — Phyllis McGinley

You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality. — Idries Shah

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki. — Karen Harper

Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses. — Jag Randhawa

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! — Bruce Dickinson

[...] she was one of those hostesses who look upon it as a mark of hospitality to make their guests eat however unwilling they may be. — W. Somerset Maugham

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense. — Scott Ritter

As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda. — Barbara Kingsolver

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him. — O. Henry

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality — Rex Stout

Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you. — Hesiod

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them. — Jeannine Parvati Baker

Rudeness is limiting. Sometimes a false hospitality can be even more dangerous, as any reader of fairy tales must know. — Patrick Flanery

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership. — Warren G. Bennis

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. — Madeleine L'Engle

An unexpected guest, enjoying such lavish hospitality, should expect to sing for his supper. — Edward Rutherfurd

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all. — Namsoon Kang

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. — Zubin Mehta

Gods are fragile beings. They depend on the hospitality of those who believe in them — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes "Southern hospitality" is just another term for hypocrisy. — Lilah Pace

You must come home with and be my guest; You will give joy to me, and I will do all that is in my power to honor you. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time. — Gautam Singhania

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. — Vera Nazarian

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. — Anonymous

Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again. — Maralee McKee

Hospitality should have no other nature than love. — Henrietta Mears

Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side. — Danny Meyer

It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land. — Lottie Moon

I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life. — Sabine Baring-Gould

How can you franchise hospitality? — Danny Meyer

Robb, listen to me. Once you have eaten of his bread and salt, you have the guest right, and the laws of hospitality protect you beneath his roof. — George R R Martin

There is no place in God's world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world. — Anthony Bourdain

It doesn't take long to stay an hour. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality. — Eugene H. Peterson

There is no hospitality like understanding. — Vanna Bonta

We currently enjoy the hospitality of the local smith, a gentleman named Heughan. — Diana Gabaldon

We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.'
You will, will you?'
Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall. — J.K. Rowling

Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans. — Benjamin Netanyahu

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. — Benjamin Franklin

- sit down and take dinner with us - a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome ... — Emily Bronte

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