Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.