Top 56 House Guest Quotes

#1. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Khalil Gibran

House Guest Quotes #26483
#2. I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.

Kato Kaelin

House Guest Quotes #33488
#3. Anger seeped in, like an old friend who was a lousy house guest, but you forget every time he leaves how much you wish him gone, and welcome him heartily when he reappears. Anger was so much easier than hurt, or heartache, or regret, so anger it was. Welcome my old friend.

Julia Kent

House Guest Quotes #42939
#4. After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone.

Emily Dickinson

House Guest Quotes #44259
#5. Wake up, my guest /
You have slept long /
In the house of my ribs, /
The House of my heart /
Wake up now, /
See through my eyes, /
Walk with my feet, /
Yush, my old friend

Greg Keyes

House Guest Quotes #44882
#6. The new is a guest in the house of the old.

Marty Rubin

House Guest Quotes #53092
#7. The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

Robin Sharma

House Guest Quotes #57677
#8. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Myrtle Reed

House Guest Quotes #67789
#9. We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

House Guest Quotes #116831
#10. I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

Alfred North Whitehead

House Guest Quotes #143003
#11. Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

Cormac McCarthy

House Guest Quotes #147285
#12. My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

Rajneesh

House Guest Quotes #170363
#13. Just because you're a god doesn't mean I won't punch you." "Just because you're a guest in my house doesn't mean I won't drown you in the ocean.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

House Guest Quotes #189598
#14. God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

Rajneesh

House Guest Quotes #195371
#15. Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.

Bill Bryson

House Guest Quotes #200175
#16. It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home

Edgar A. Guest

House Guest Quotes #236442
#17. No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Plautus

House Guest Quotes #278523
#18. A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

William Feather

House Guest Quotes #376839
#19. I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning - the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

House Guest Quotes #439754
#20. My neighbour is the very famous Johnny Depp, who looks away should I ever appear. When my seven-year tenure at Sweetzer ends, Johnny Depp will buy the house for use as a guest annex.

Morrissey

House Guest Quotes #472328
#21. Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold.

Eric Wilson

House Guest Quotes #476634
#22. Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

Stephen King

House Guest Quotes #490290
#23. Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

David Bowie

House Guest Quotes #494171
#24. This could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances. That is what we are now. The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who still have circumstances.

Margaret Atwood

House Guest Quotes #513199
#25. It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.

Francesca Marciano

House Guest Quotes #539544
#26. Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

Barbara Kingsolver

House Guest Quotes #565369
#27. Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Oscar Wilde

House Guest Quotes #598651
#28. The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.

Thomas Jefferson

House Guest Quotes #630511
#29. Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

Edgar Guest

House Guest Quotes #634196
#30. I actually never auditioned for 'Full House.' I had done a guest appearance on 'Valerie' as the next door neighbor's niece, and from that I got into 'Full House.' I was only five years old, and I was on the show until I was 13.

Jodie Sweetin

House Guest Quotes #765276
#31. I am not seeking anything but service to my creator. I do not need a house, I do not need a car, I do not need any of that, but to be present with each guest that sits across from me, and I am committed to a bigger thing than me, which is the vision of own, because own is going to outlive all of us.

Iyanla Vanzant

House Guest Quotes #847346
#32. My mom and I built a guest house on my property so that my mom could help me fostering animals. I do multiple fosters a month.

Nikki Reed

House Guest Quotes #958683
#33. Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.

Henry Van Dyke

House Guest Quotes #988540
#34. Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?"
Dean "Because that would be bad for business?"
From Summon the Keeper

Tanya Huff

House Guest Quotes #994173
#35. In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.

Tim Cope

House Guest Quotes #1037631
#36. Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday.

Roger Bannister

House Guest Quotes #1162006
#37. I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

Karl Lagerfeld

House Guest Quotes #1164727
#38. She had nothing against any of the other guests, but once she started she saw no way to stop. There was nothing to do but turn the hose against every arriving guest. No one coming out of the house to reason with her was safe either.

Katherine Paterson

House Guest Quotes #1175197
#39. I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

House Guest Quotes #1178516
#40. This is the problem with time ... It doesn't follow its own rules. It stretches or compresses at will. It's either a lingering house guest or an escape artist.

Helen Humphreys

House Guest Quotes #1206469
#41. Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open.

Tahir Shah

House Guest Quotes #1214984
#42. I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

Peter Brimelow

House Guest Quotes #1228909
#43. My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army.

James Blunt

House Guest Quotes #1234917
#44. Alonso paid one of the guards to keep him informed on what goes on in the house when he's not around. Alonso was in the guest house entertaining a few young girls all under the age of seventeen. He had been drugging and fucking them all

Nako

House Guest Quotes #1240998
#45. I hated living in the small and claustrophobic atmosphere of my house. It didn't feel like home anymore. I felt like an unwanted guest.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

House Guest Quotes #1318802
#46. If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

Bill Gates

House Guest Quotes #1350762
#47. It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

Tahir Shah

House Guest Quotes #1404913
#48. I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

Robin Leach

House Guest Quotes #1408906
#49. The Indian ... stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

House Guest Quotes #1439937
#50. Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Erma Bombeck

House Guest Quotes #1558433
#51. Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

House Guest Quotes #1568587
#52. We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

Loretta Lynn

House Guest Quotes #1703191
#53. No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

Plautus

House Guest Quotes #1780099
#54. I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Jeff Goldblum

House Guest Quotes #1820045
#55. Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

Confucius

House Guest Quotes #1865794
#56. I've given up my living room, guest room, job, career, heterosexuality and my stance on no pets in the house, but I'm not giving up my room. I'm drawing a line.

Dani Alexander

House Guest Quotes #1873647

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