guests quotes

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

- Sir (Henry) Max(imilian) Beerbohm
  And Even Now,'Hosts and Guests'.

And whenThyself with shining foot shall pass Among the guests star-scattered on the grass, And in thy joyous errand reach the spot Where I made oneturn down an empty glass!

- Edward Fitzgerald
  The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza 75. In the1879 edition this was changed to'And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass†'.

When I would make a feast I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

- SirJohn Harington
  Epigrams, bk.1, no.5,'Against  WritersThat Carp at Other Men's Books'.

A university where, at last, the Jews are hosts, and not guests as we have always been before.

- Abram Leon Sachar
  Of Brandeis University, on its10th anniversary. Speech, 19 Nov.

  It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

- Cornelia Otis Skinner
  Of opening night reviews. TheApe In Me.