A Quote by Philip Sidney

Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest. — © Philip Sidney
Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

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An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.
If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.
I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
I had my one guest star on The Flash, and that became several guest stars, and then they mentioned this new show.
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.
It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.
I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.
Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton
In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.
When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
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