One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
Invitation Quotes
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it. “No room! No room!” they cried out when they saw Alice coming. “There’s plenty of room!” said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table. “Have some wine,” the […]
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
When you invite people to think, you are inviting revolution.
We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
All the dissolute rascals invite you to dinner, Phoebus. He whom impurity feeds is not, I opine, a spotless person.
I’m annoyed, my Lupercus for ages your friend – uninvited to dinner you’ve kept. I shall take my revenge. You may beg, coax, and send – “Well? And what will you do?” Why accept.
Philo declares he never dines at home, and that is no exaggeration: He has no place whereat to dine in Rome, Unless he hooks an invitation.
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend – if you have one. (Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back, “Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second – if there is one.”)
