# Hospitality

Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions, special events, and other services for travelers and tourists.

## Quotes

* Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.
** Alfred Austin, Haunts of Ancient Peace (London: Macmillan and Co., 1902), p. 121.
* HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
** Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
* Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
** Ezekiel 16:49-50 (NIV).
* There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,— But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.
** Sam Walter Foss, House by the Side of the Road (published in The Independent in 1896).
* Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by; They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong. Wise, foolish.—so am I; Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.
** Sam Walter Foss, House by the Side of the Road (published in The Independent in 1896).
* And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.
** Jesus, Matthew 10:14-15 (KJV).
* Then the King will say to those on his right: ‘Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world. For I became hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you received me hospitably.
** Jesus Christ, Matthew 25:34, 35
* So saying, with despatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
** John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 331.
* Share with the holy ones according to their needs. Follow the course of hospitality.
** Apostle Paul, Romans 12:13 (NWT)
* Do not forget hospitality, for through it some unknowingly entertained angels.
** Apostle Paul, Hebrews 13:2 (NWT)
* Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
** Peter, 1 Peter 4:9 (NWT)
* My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality.
** William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 4, line 80.
* I am your host; With robbers' hands my hospitable favours You should not ruffle thus.
** William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act III, scene 7, line 39.
* I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.
** William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act III, scene 4, line 118.

### Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

    Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379-80.
* When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
** Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Hospitality.
* If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town.
** Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Quits.
* He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare: He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer, Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care; His wine and beere to strangers were not spare, And yet beside to all that hunger greved, His gates were ope, and they were there relived.
** Robert Greene|Robert Greene, A Maiden's Dream, line 232.
* Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the road-side and he entertained all men.
** Homer, The Iliad, Book VI, line 12. Lang's Trans.
* True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
** Homer, The Odyssey, Book XV, line 74 (83 in Pope's translation).
* For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
** Richard Hovey, Spring.
* Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
** Jeremiah, IX. 2.
* Hospitality sitting with gladness.
** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
* Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.
** No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house.
** Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, III. 3. 12.
* For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
** Alexander Pope, Satire II, Book II, line 159.
* Given to hospitality.
** Romans, XII. 13.
* Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
** Rabindranath Tagore, Gardener, 4.
* The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.
** Henry Van Dyke, Inscription for a Friend's House.
* A host in himself.
** Wellington, of Lord John Russell. Related by Samuel Rogers (1839). Paraphrase of Homer's epithet of Ajax. See Alexander Pope's translation of Iliad, III. 293.

## See also

* Charity
* Guests
* Strangers

## External links

* "Be Hospitable to One Another"
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