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  • I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

    Mean   Actresses   Host  
  • The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  • Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

    Food   Japan   Average  
    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage
  • In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

    Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.429, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.125, Vintage
  • All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

    Real   People   Democracy  
  • People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.

    Mother   Fun   Party  
  • I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

    Dirty   Book   Doctors  
    "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.
  • To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

    Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.67, New York Review of Books
  • My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

  • The smell of apple pies didn't quite fill the house, but it was there, a thread under everything else. It was kind of hard to take Christophe seriously when he smelled like baked goods. I wondered if other djampjir smelled like Hostess Twinkies and sniggered to myself.

    Smell   Apples   Pie  
    "Strange Angels (Strange Angels, Book 1)". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, May 14, 2009.
  • Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.

    Dream   Book   Political  
  • Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

    Book   Giving   Dinner  
  • Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

    Air   Class   Differences  
    "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.
  • I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.

    House   Would Be   Actors  
  • I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal.

    Assassins   Might   Next  
    Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
  • It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?

  • There's a lot that I watch over and over. But I have to say, because of my line of work as a horror-movie hostess, I've probably seen Night Of The Living Dead more than any movie. I've probably seen it more than George A. Romero.

    Night   Watches   Lines  
    "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.
  • To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.

    Home   House   Rooms  
  • Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

    George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社
  • We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

    Host   Screws   Hostesses  
  • The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

    Fun   Party   Important  
    Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.
  • I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal.

    Assassins   Might   Next  
    Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
  • Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

  • Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

    Funny   Travel   Car  
  • My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.

    Nice   Health   Southern  
    A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
  • And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

    Mother   Class   Wife  
    Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books
  • I just want to apologise for being late. I was flying back from Spain and the air hostess said: "We are two hours late Mr Carson." When I asked why, she said: "The pilot has heard a funny noise in the engine that he doesn't like, so we are waiting on another pilot who can't hear it."

    Funny   Humor   Two  
  • And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

    Party   Privacy   Host  
    The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)
  • New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake.

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