Hospitality Quotes - Page 16

• The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

  Rowan Williams

  Taken, Answers, Bills

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• Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

  Dan Lipinski

  Car, Receiving, Needs

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• From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Self, Mazes, Torches

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• To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

  Danny Sugerman

  Jail, Drug, Rooms

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• Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in the corporate interest of cheap labor in the hospitality industries, agriculture, and construction; or in the political sense of new liberal constituents; or in the tribal sense of expanding the so-called La Raza base. But the vast majority of Americans accept that when federal law is ignored, chaos ensues.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Law, Agriculture, Political

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• I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

  George Herbert Palmer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Learning

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• Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content

  Charles Jennings

  Inspirational, Learning, Thinking

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• A table-full of welcome!

  William Shakespeare

  Thank You, Tables, Welcome

  William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). “Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series”, p.42, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong.Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear!

  Alistair Beaton

  Leadership, Motivation, Important

  Alistair Beaton (2001). “The Little Book of Management Bollocks”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• ... 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

  Nashville, Cities, Creative

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• [Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

  Dorothy Parker

  Country, Weekend, Bored

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• Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Thinking, Clothes, Rags

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.256, Applewood Books

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• It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.

  Judith Martin

  Order, Departure, Guests

  Judith Martin (1989). “Miss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium”

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• To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Acceptance, Land, Generosity

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• cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Giving, Demand, Failing

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail.

  Barbara Holland

  Doors, Safety, Important

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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• A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Kindness, Past, Guests

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.

  Martha Stewart

  Home, Ideas, Relief

  Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Hawes (1982). “Entertaining”, Clarkson Potter

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• 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

  Noses, World, Gestures

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Letting Go, Art, Business

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• I found incredible kindness, dignity and hospitality in both Iraq and Afghanistan - am only alive because of it - the most worthwhile lesson of a twenty month walk to these countries was a deepening appreciation of the kindness of strangers.

  Rory Stewart

  Country, Appreciation, Kindness

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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