Famous quotes containing the words guest and/or house:
“And here the precious dust is layd;
Whose purely temperd Clay was made
So fine, that it the guest betrayd.
Else the soule grew so fast within,
It broke the outward shell of sinne,
And so was hatchd a Cherubin.”
—Thomas Carew (15891639)
“A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.”
—Walter Bagehot (18261877)