“We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Morning Meeting on MSNBC http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=4373 (2009-12-04): On the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan <br class="br">2000s, 2009
“In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
The Fourfold Way of India (1924); this has become paraphrased as "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."
“And so, by night, while we were all at rest,
I think the coming sped the parting guest.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
The Parting and the Coming Guest (1873).
“We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.””
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 17, “Binabik” (p. 260).
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
22nd April 1826) The Death-Feast (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.
“Love lodged in a woman's breast
Is but a guest.”
Henry Wotton (1568–1639) English ambassador
A Woman's Heart (1651).
“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
