And with our broth, and bread, and bits, sir friend, Youve fared well : pray make an end ; Two days youve larded here ; a third, ye know, Makes guests and fish smell strong ; pray go – Robert Herrick
Coleridge says that to bait a mouse-trap is as much as to say to the mouse, Come and have a piece of cheese, and then, when it accepts the invitation, to do it to death is a betrayal of the laws of hospitality. – Robert Lynd
Well teach you to drink deep ere you depart. – William Shakespeare
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance. – Henry David Thoreau
Im sure I dont know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldnt like to. – Oscar Wilde
I have heard people eat most heartily of another mans meat, that is, what they do not pay for. – William Wycherley
