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.

Methinks a father
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
That best becomes the table.

Methinks a father
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
That best becomes the table.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all
traces of their steps.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all
traces of their steps.

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

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

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 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.