Guests

Guests are visitors who are the recipients of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another, or acting as a patron or customer in a hotel or similar business. The term also indicates an invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.

Quotes

• Fish and guests in three days are stale.
  • John Lyly, Euphues (1579).

• Unbidden guests
  Are often welcomest when they are gone.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act II, scene 2, line 55.

• Here's our chief guest.
  If he had been forgotten,
  It had been as a gap in our great feast.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 1, line 11.

• Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 28.

• See, your guests approach:
  Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
  And let's be red with mirth.
  • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 52.

• Methinks a father
  Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
  That best becomes the table.
  • William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 405.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 345.

• Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art;
  If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;
  If stranger, such no longer be;
  If foe, our love shall conquer thee.
  • Paul Elmer More says this is an Old Welsh door Verse.

• For whom he means to make an often guest,
  One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.
  • Joseph Hall, Come Dine with Me.

• Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.
  • Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
  • Horace, Epistles, I. 1. 15.

• Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers
  Sweet courteous things unsaid.
  We two have talked our hearts out to the embers,
  And now go hand in hand down to the dead.
  • John Masefield, The Faithful.

• You must come home with me and be my guest;
  You will give joy to me, and I will do
  All that is in my power to honour you.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Mercury, Stanza 5.

• To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
  • Rabindranath Tagore, Gardener, 45.

See also

• Hospitality