Hospitality-Inhospitality

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. (Max Beerbohm)

Drinking together in the evening we are human. When dawn comes, animals, we rise up against each other. (Antimedon)

So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste. She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. (Milton)

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance. (Francis Bacon)

Fish and guests smell at three days old. (Danish proverb)

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face. (Emerson)