quotes about Hospitality
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When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
-- Al Capone -
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
-- Allan ShermanSource : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
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When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
-- Billy Eckstine -
The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.
-- Conrad Hilton -
You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.
-- Dave Lombardo -
It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ...
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.
-- Emily Post -
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
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I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
-- Eugene McCarthy -
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
-- Francis AtterburySource : Francis Atterbury, Nitish K. Basu (1740). “A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.105
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Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
-- Henri Nouwen -
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Hospitality should have no other nature than love.
-- Henrietta Mears -
Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
-- Hesiod -
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
-- Homer -
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
-- Hugh Miller -
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Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
-- Jane Addams -
Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.
-- Jeannine Parvati Baker -
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
-- JeremiahSource : "Book of Jeremiah", IX. 2, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 379-80, 1922.
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Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.
-- Jesse BrownerSource : Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
-- Julian Baggini -
For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.
-- June Carter Cash -
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
-- Kate Millett -
They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
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The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
-- Lawrence Welk -
I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
-- Layne Staley -
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
-- Max BeerbohmSource : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.91, 1st World Publishing
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Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.
-- Miroslav Volf -
Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.
-- Patrick Henry -
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
-- Paul McCartney -
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 -
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suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.
-- Phyllis McGinley -
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
-- R. Lee Ermey -
I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
-- R. Lee Ermey -
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
-- Rex StoutSource : Rex Stout (2010). “Death of a Dude”, p.65, Bantam
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When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
-- Rhona Mitra -
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
-- Rudolf Arnheim -
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
-- Sam Donaldson -
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 RitterSource : "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.
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True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.
-- Sheila OstranderSource : Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”
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I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
-- Stanley Tucci -
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
-- Stephen King -
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I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.
-- Steve Cropper -
There is no hospitality like understanding.
-- Vanna BontaSource : "Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel". Book by Vanna Bonta, June 1995.
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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. BennisSource : Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.40, Basic Books
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
-- Warren G. Bennis -
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There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.
-- Washington Irving -
Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
-- Zubin Mehta -
You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.
-- Kurt MeyerSource : Source: www.npr.org
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Only a Europe that is conscious of its own values can be both an economically strong and a morally and intellectually respected partner, and thereby extend its hospitality to others. It's a cultural disgrace that we are forced to identify no-go areas for foreigners.
-- Walter Kasper -
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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 -
Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.
-- Gabriel Lippmann