“Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.”
Source: City of Bones
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Variant: Comfort comes as a guest; lingers to become the host,- and stays to enslave us.
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John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer
To police on being charged.
“Come in, dear wind, and be our guest
You too have neither home nor rest.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Christmas legend" [Weinachtslegende] (1923) Berliner Börsen-Courier (25 December 1924); trans in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 100
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier
"Gates and Doors"
Main Street and Other Poems (1917)
Context: Unlock the door this evening
And let your gate swing wide,
Let all who ask for shelter
Come speedily inside.
What if your yard be narrow?
What if your house be small?
There is a Guest is coming
Will glorify it all.
