Visitor Etiquette Quotes

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

I live in the Village, and the way it's been, people sort of drop in on me and my husband. My husband is Robert Nemiroff, and he, too, is a writer.

A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.