When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Max Beerbohm
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. - Anonymous

  2. The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers."Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily.... - George Sand

  3. There is no hospitality like understanding. - Vanna Bonta

  4. Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women... - Henri J.m. Nouwen

  5. Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

More Quotes By Max Beerbohm
  1. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

  2. I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

  3. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  4. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

  5. There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

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