Guest Quotes

“Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides. ”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

“Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“But still – that is our vocation: to convert the hostis into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.”
― Henri Nouwen

“It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.”
― Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines

“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, Small Wonder

“Tonight or every night if you wish you can have a very distinguished guest from the space: Just open your curtain at night, then the Moon will visit you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“How difficult it must be to leave a place called home, along with all the bitter sweet memories attached, for someone special and later on visit the same place as a guest.”
― Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

“Life is not the guest knocking your door for a first time now but the spouse that has been sharing your bed those past four or five years with every stab and every kiss.”
― Viola George

“now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are _but_ to whom I am being a neighbor.”
― Namsoon Kang, Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

“Хиггинс: Она сегодня придет к вам в гости.
Миссис Хиггинс: Не помню, когда я ее приглашала.
Хиггинс: Вы и не приглашали. Я ее пригласил. Если б вы ее знали, вы бы ее ни за что не пригласили.
("Пигмалион", Б. Шоу)”
― Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“Never enter the home of another with dust on your shoes and selfish expectations in your heart.”
― Stewart Stafford

“დღეს სტუმარია ეგ ჩემი, თუნდ ზღვა ემართოს სისხლისა.”
― Vazha-Pshavela, სტუმარ მასპინძელი

“Tears of our own appears like blood, but tears of unknown feels like just water.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Care for the guests as you would your parents.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“What wisdom do you want from a death-marked girl? I can say only this: In the end I learned that the water was in me. It was a ghost that could not be exorcised. But a guest, even uninvited, must be attended to. You make up a bed for them. You pour from your best bottle of wine. If you can learn to love that which despises you, that which terrifies you, you can dance on the shore and play in the waves again, like you did when you were young. Before the ocean is friend or foe, it simply is. And so are you.

-FROM ANGHARAD MYRDDIN (NEE BLACKMAR), 191 AD”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Tunazaliwa na kufa. Lakini hatujui tunakotoka. Wala hatujui tunakokwenda. Huenda tunatoka na kwenda katika dunia nyingine, ya ulimwengu mwingine, hivyo kutufanya wageni wa dunia yetu wenyewe. Acha dunia katika hali nzuri kuliko ulivyoikuta.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Death is a good Hotel : you are a guest at any Time. (Un bon hôtel est la mort. - Elle nous accueille à toute heure)”
― Charles de Leusse

“There's an old saying that guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. It's been three weeks now, Armand, and the stench is pretty strong. I don't know how long you're planning to stay in Fiji, but in any event, this is your last evening in my vale.”
― Anne Østby, Pieces of Happiness

“Have no fear of the seated guest, the saying goes - fear the guest who is standing. Especially one who drinks standing up, for the belly of the standing guest, like a well-stretched wineskin, becomes a great deal more capacious.”
― Fazil Iskander, Sandro of Chegem

“Thank the guests for coming! You may say it’s none of your business, but it’s still part of your job.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“Because living with someone who is in pain
Requires you to move in a different way.”
― Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart

“As for what else I want from you...' He gestured to the house behind us. 'I'll tell you tomorrow at breakfast. For now, clean yourself up. Rest.' That rage flickered in his eyes again at the dress, the hair. 'Take the stairs on the right, one level down. You room is the first door.'

'Not a dungeon cell?' Perhaps it was foolish to reveal that fear, to suggest it to him.

But Rhys half turned, brows lifting. 'You are not a prisoner, Feyre. You made a bargain, and I am calling it in. You will be my guest here with the privileges of a member of my household. None of my subjects are going to touch you, hurt you, or so much as think ill of you here.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“My room was... a dream.
...
Like the upstairs living area, its windows were open to the brutal world beyond- no glass, no shutters- and sheer amethyst curtains fluttered in that unnatural soft breeze. The large bed was a creamy white-and-ivory concoction, with pillows and blankets and throws for days, made more inviting by the twin golden lamps beside it. An armoire and dressing table occupied a wall, framed by those glass-less windows. Across the room, a chamber with a porcelain sink and toilet lay behind an arched wooden door, but the bath...

The bath.

Occupying the other half of the bedroom, my bathtub was actually a pool, hanging right off the mountain itself. A pool for soaking and or enjoying myself. Its far edge seemed to disappear into nothing, the water flowing silently off the side and into the night beyond. A narrow ledge on the adjacent wall was lined with fat, guttering candles whose glow gilded the dark, glassy surface and wafting tendrils of steam.

Open, airy, plush, and... calm.

The room was fit for an empress. With the marble floors, silks, velvets, and elegant details, only an empress could have afforded it. I tried not to think what Rhys' chamber was like, if this was how he treated his guests.

Guest- not prisoner.

Well... the room proved it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“A lot of people who behave well at the table do so only when a special guest is around.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts