Hospitality Quotes - Page 13

• In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Character, Class, Two

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.81, 1st World Publishing

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• Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Nice, Long, Rooms

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 12, 2005.

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• Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Drinking, Bars

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• I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

  Layne Staley

  Rooms, Hotel Rooms, Hotel

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• Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Love, Heart, Reflection

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• It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Beach, People, House

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.125, Algonquin Books

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• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  Herbert Spencer

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Pittsburgh, Born

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.

  Hesiod

  Names

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

  Hesiod

  Friendship, Enemy, Invites

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• Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.

  Herman Melville

  Europe, Civilization, People

  Herman Melville (2012). “Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.211, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Margaret Way

  Law, House Guests, Firsts

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• I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Night

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• I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

  Esther Williams

  Swim, Beverly Hills, Pool

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• Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.

  Margaret Chan

  Cities, Population, Levels

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• The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

  Jessica Savitch

  Fire, People, News

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• So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Home, Airplane

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• The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

  Benjamin Zander

  Leadership, Jobs, Vision

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• If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

  Benito Mussolini

  Leadership, Reality, Giving

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• I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

  Sean Connery

  Drug, Rooms, Hotel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

  Paula Deen

  Sweet, Nice, Thinking

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• I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

  Princess Diana

  Children, Sick, Dying

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• 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

  Leadership, Vision, Hallmark

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.40, Basic Books

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• He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

  Charles James Fox

  Relationship, Leadership, Opinion

  On Pitt's scheme of Parliamentary Reform, in J. L. Hammond 'C. J. Fox' (1903) p. 75

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