Famous quotes containing the words guest house, guest and/or house:
“The temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didnt want it, they said in their hundred voices, No, not yet, and the sky said, No, not there.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Somebody said that it couldnt be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldnt, but he would be one
Who wouldnt say so till hed tried.”
—Edgar Albert Guest (18811959)
“When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte,
As every child can tell,
The House of Peers, throughout the war,
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well:”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)