Guest

Famous quotes containing the word guest:

    “If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wine-glass to the light and look judicial.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “When mother’s relatives visited,
    delicacies were cooked.
    When father’s guest arrrived,
    mother swelled and had a fit.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    “This guest of summer,
    The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
    By his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath
    Smells wooingly here.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)