C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Guest

A pretty woman is a welcome guest.

Byron.

Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Shakespeare.

Here’s our chief guest.
If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast.

Shakespeare.

For I, who holds sage Homer’s rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Pope.

See, your guests approach:
Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
And let’s be red with mirth.

Shakespeare.

Some steam process should be invented for arranging guests when they are above five hundred.

Beaconsfield.

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.

Laboulaye.

You must come home with me and be my guest;
You will give joy to me, and I will do
All that is in my power to honor you.

Shelley.

For whom he means to make an often guest,
One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

Joseph Hall.