hotel quotes

True to oneself! Which self? Which of my many†hundreds of selves?† Therearemomentswhen I feel I am nothing but the small clerk of some hotel without a proprietor, who has all hisworkcutoutto enter the names and hand the keys to the wilful guests.

-Beauchamp
  Journal entry,  Apr.

In England, justice is open to alllike the Ritz Hotel. 560

- SirJames Charles Mathew
Quoted in R E Megarry Miscellany-at-Law (1955). Sometimes attributed to Lord Darling.

Oh, no, the machine, the machine is necessary. A man comesintoagreat hotelandsays,Iama messenger. Who is this man? He disappears walking, there is no noise, nothing. Maybe he will never come back, maybe he will never deliver the message.But a man who rides up on a great machine, this man is responsible, this man exists. He will be given messages.

- Arthur Miller
  Rodolpho.  A View From the Bridge, act1.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Waiter.You Never CanTell, act 2.