When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

See, your guests approach.
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.

See, your guests approach.
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let's be red with mirth.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
[Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
[Lat., Quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes.]

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Fish and visitors stink after three days.

Fish and visitors stink after three days.

A guest and a fish after three days are poison

A guest and a fish after three days are poison

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest.
(Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a read more

(Macbeth:) Here's our chief guest.
(Lady Macbeth:) If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast,
And all-thing unbecoming.