Hospitality Quotes - Page 8

• If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

  Dorothy Day

  Men, Giving, Vision

  "On Pilgrimage". Book by Dorothy Day, January 1970.

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• Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Monument, Died

  1800 Castle Rackrent,'An Hibernian Tale'.

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• Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Faces, Visitors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

  Rose Henniker Heaton

  Home, Trying, Feels

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• The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Beautiful, Home, Light

  Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.40, Library of Alexandria

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• The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Mean, Men, Flags

  Robert Smith Surtees (1930). “The novels of R.S. Surtees”

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• There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.

  Ann Richards

  Texas, Two, Special

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• I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite "good day." If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Good Day, Ideas, House

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2196, Library of Alexandria

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• Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

  Joe Bastianich

  Jobs, People, Special

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

  Steve Tisch

  Father, Guy, Dinner

  "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.

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• A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Tasks, Host

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• Hotels are amazing spaces and platform for activism. If they placed voting booths in hotels and other space of hospitality - a lot more people would vote. Voting poll stations aren't easily accessible. These phone booths should be in more hotels and public spaces. Activism is accessibility. Bravo to the Standard for making it possible.

  Mickalene Thomas

  People, Voting, Vote

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• I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

  Kate Moss

  Stay Strong, Business, Mad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  Ira Glass

  Stay Strong, Fun, Hotel

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• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

  Solomon Burke

  Vegas, Sixteen, Sand

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• I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Mean, Giving

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• I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.

  Karen Duffy

  Morning, Husband, Optimistic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Leadership, Ships

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• Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

  Barbara Holland

  Home, Joy, Rats

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• Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

  Al Capp

  New York, Husband, Hair

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• We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

  Akio Morita

  Relationship, Leadership, Responsibility

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• We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation.

  Peter Leithart

  Naked, Welcome, Transformation

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• My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Son, France, Caps

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• A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Running, Witty

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• 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

  Uncles, Aunt, Littles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

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