Hospitality famous quotes

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
-- Al Capone

#Drinking #Hospitality #Silver

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 Sherman

#Pay #Bills #Hospitality

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
-- Billy Eckstine

#Hospitality

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman

#War #Hospitality #Institutions

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Cells #Mind #Hospitality

In all my travels I have never seen the hospitality of San Francisco equalled anywhere in the world.
-- Conrad Hilton

#San Francisco #World #Hospitality

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.
-- Dave Lombardo

#Waiting #Hospitality #Hotel

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ...
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#People #Too Much #Hospitality

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#People #Hospitality #Method

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
-- Elizabeth Goudge

#Giving #Demand #Hospitality

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

#Guests #Host #Hospitality

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Stories #Hospitality

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Smell #Tears #Hospitality

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
-- Francis Atterbury

#Degenerates #Hospitality #Madness

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

#Spiritual #Struggle #Hospitality

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
-- Henri Nouwen

#Space #People #Hospitality

Hospitality should have no other nature than love.
-- Henrietta Mears

#Hospitality #Should

Do not get a name as overly lavish or too inhospitable.
-- Hesiod

#Names #Hospitality

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
-- Homer

#Guests #Hospitality #Offensive

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
-- Hugh Miller

#Thank You #Hospitality #Excellent

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
-- Jane Addams

#Pride #Hospitality #Buried

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.
-- Jeannine Parvati Baker

#Dream #Guests #Hospitality

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
-- Jeremiah

#Men #Hospitality #Wilderness

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 Browner

#Meals #Hospitality #Eating

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
-- Julian Baggini

#Meals #Guests #Hospitality

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.
-- June Carter Cash

#Lasts #Months #Hospitality

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
-- Kate Millett

#Saws #Hospitality #Hell

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
-- Laurence J. Peter

#Leadership #Ships #Hospitality

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
-- Lawrence Welk

#Music #Pittsburgh #Hospitality

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
-- Layne Staley

#Rooms #Hospitality #Hotel Rooms

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
-- Maria Edgeworth

#Hospitality #Monument

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
-- Max Beerbohm

#Art #Soul #Hospitality

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

#Way #Violence #Hospitality

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.
-- Patrick Henry

#Prayer #Tables #Hospitality

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
-- Paul McCartney

#Redneck #Hospitality #Beats

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

#Naked #Welcome #Hospitality

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.
-- Phyllis McGinley

#Suffering #Ingredients #Hospitality

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
-- R. Lee Ermey

#Guy #Hospitality #Speak

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
-- R. Lee Ermey

#Doctors #Hospitality #Problem

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
-- Rex Stout

#Jewels #Guests #Hospitality

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
-- Rhona Mitra

#Imagination #Rooms #Hospitality

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

#Confusion #Hospitality #Mets

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
-- Sam Donaldson

#Texas #Hospitality #Born

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 Ritter

#People #Hospitality #Stranger

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.
-- Sean Connery

#Drug #Rooms #Hospitality

True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.
-- Sheila Ostrander

#Balance #Hospitality #Form

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
-- Stanley Tucci

#Long #Stuff #Hospitality

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
-- Stephen King

#Home #Intelligence #Hospitality

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.
-- Steve Cropper

#Months #Hospitality #Hotel

There is no hospitality like understanding.
-- Vanna Bonta

#Understanding #Hospitality

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. Bennis

#Leadership #Vision #Hospitality

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
-- Warren G. Bennis

#Leadership #World #Hospitality

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

#Heart #Ease #Hospitality

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
-- Zubin Mehta

#Hospitality #Hotel #Wells

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.
-- Kurt Meyer

#Hospitality #Bigs #Extending

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

#Strong #Europe #Hospitality

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

#Home #Trying #Hospitality

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

#Taken #Rooms #Hospitality