House Guests Quotes

#1. House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.

Margo Kaufman

#2. I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

Gabriela Isler

#3. I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep immediately ... But other books become house guests. THey take up residence in the rooms of the mond and never leave.

Joe Bennett

#4. House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Erma Bombeck

#5. The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

Dag Hammarskjold

#6. Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

Confucius

#7. Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they're there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.

Ian Lawton

#8. 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

#9. The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will.

Czeslaw Milosz

#10. Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

Barbara Walters

#11. It's kind of like when you have guests coming over to your house, and you haven't really picked up in awhile, and you look around and say, 'Wow, my place is kind of a mess, but I never noticed it because it's what I've been living in every day.' That's kind of what Supergirl is to the Red Lanterns.

Charles Soule

#12. Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

Billie Holiday

#13. 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

#14. Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

Sai Marie Johnson

#15. Here were shadows on the window blinds of guests assembling, and there a group of pretty girls, hooded and Ugg-booted and all chattering at once, tripping off lightly to some near neighbor's house where woe would befall the single guy who saw them enter - they were artful witches, and they knew it.

David Levithan

#16. Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Samuel Richardson

#17. 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

#18. Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Oscar Wilde

#19. My big success is to see my guests happy when they like my food. My place is not a restaurant. It's my house. The people are not customers. They are my guests, my friends.

Julie King

#20. A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.

Isabella Beeton

#21. People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

Anton Chekhov

#22. The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men in the lobby every night-to see that the guests didn't bring their own liquor instead of buying it from the house.

Raymond Chandler

#23. Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Khalil Gibran

#24. 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

#25. It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

Myrtle Reed

#26. Editing is like strawberries put on the table as a centerpiece, before the full course meal, but, you don't want them to become spoiled, or your guests will go to the neighbor's house next door.

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#27. business of the house with guests.

Lola Grace Stevens

#28. 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

#29. A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Ismail Kadare

#30. 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

#31. I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

Paul Lynde

#32. The house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.

Frances Mayes

#33. My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

Paul Lynde

#34. I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.

Andre Leon Talley

#35. A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

William Feather

#36. If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

Khalil Gibran

#37. Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

David Bowie

#38. We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

Elizabeth Gilbert

#39. When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

Caroline Paul

#40. We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Robert Breault

#41. Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Karl Barth