“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian,The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein,Where the Sidewalk Ends

“I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert,Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”
― Oscar Wilde,The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is no harm to accept an invitation of a stranger,
but better visit an occasion of people we know well.”
― Toba Beta

“And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.”
― Martha Grimes,The Man With a Load of Mischief

“Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you really here?
William: I received an invitation.
Nicholas: Not from me you didn't.
William: Of course not from you, brother. Parliament would go up in flames before I receive a social invitation from you. ”
― Donna MacMeans,The Education of Mrs. Brimley

“As I get older, I realize just because I'm invited doesn't mean I have to accept.”
― Carlos Wallace,Life is not Complicated, You Are

“The future is always on its way, but never here. That's why you never invite it for dinner.”
― Jarod Kintz,Powdered Saxophone Music

“You could tell more about a stranger by seeing their house than you ever would by inviting them to yours.

- Cassie”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes,The Naturals

“Хиггинс: Она сегодня придет к вам в гости.
Миссис Хиггинс: Не помню, когда я ее приглашала.
Хиггинс: Вы и не приглашали. Я ее пригласил. Если б вы ее знали, вы бы ее ни за что не пригласили.
("Пигмалион", Б. Шоу)”
― Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw,Pygmalion

“Learn to read between the lines to understand where you are not invited anymore.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Will this journey of mine ultimately take me to a pinnacle or a pit? I am certain to rise to the former if I journey with God, and I am doomed to land in the latter if I’ve neglected to extend Him an invitation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You told me that this city was better seen at night. Are you all talk, or will you ever bother to show me?'

A low laugh as he looked me over. I didn't recoil from his gaze.

When his eyes found mine again, his mouth twisted into a smile so few saw. Real amusement- perhaps a little bit of happiness edged with relief. The male behind the High Lord's mask. 'Dinner,' he said. 'Tonight. Let's find out if you, Feyre darling, are all talk- or if you'll allow a Lord of Night to take you out on the town.”
― Sarah J. Maas,A Court of Mist and Fury

“Remember my party tonight!”
― Virginia Woolf,Mrs. Dalloway

“Always reject the invitation to anger, it is not worth honoring.”
― Khuliso Mamathoni,The Greatest Proposal

“Tables aren’t meant for just one person. That’s a desk. A desk only admits one. And who holds a dinner at a desk anyway?”
― Koki Oyuke,Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts

“Man will never be able to create what God freely invites us to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The oddity of it all is that I can do absolutely nothing, yet I am capable of doing absolutely everything. Such a perplexing dichotomy can only be explained by whether I have invited God into my circumstances, or I neglected to mail the invitation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You see me shining today,haha.. it where I'm coming from the pit of fire that shaped me to glowing graduate me on who i was previous.The pain, day and night tears fearness,low self esteem,being unknown mat for everyone, rejected, victim of rape, from zero,hopeless,called by names.I'm trying to say worse then you know God take me from ashes to the Kings table give him all the Glory that what he can do for you if you give him your heart. I didn't choose him but he does axctually i used to curse him but his grace doesnt pass me by,I'm sure you need him too before sunset.”
― Nozipho N.Maphumulo

“The waiting that God invites us into is not a dull void but an invitation to participate in God’s own life.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

“You might ask what an invitation is really inviting you to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is filled with invitations to experience joy and goodness.”
― Laurie E. Smith,Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The Word of God serves as a solemn invitation to His divine presence and an assurance of His covenant.”
― Gift Gugu Mona,The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“The Word of God holds an unbroken record of innovations and inventions. It is through the Word that creation came to be. His Word is an invitation to the nations so they can obtain an understanding of who God truly is. Its pages convey God’s promises. It is a light through all seasons and it carries ancient keys that change many destinies.”
― Gift Gugu Mona,The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“If something pushes itself into our lives and demands immediate allegiance of us, it will always be less than that which we should give the best of ourselves over to. However, if something stands at a distance and invites us in quiet and unobtrusive tones, and if it then steps away to allow us to settle the matter for ourselves, it is likely worth the whole of our allegiance. Such is God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes, instead of waiting for someone to open a door for you, you need to create a new door and invite those who may never receive an invitation”
― Manuel Corazzari

“A vision is not a direction—it is an invitation into a story worth living.”
― Leszek Mazurek,Wisdom by AI: The Leader's Compass

“... you sound the sort of person who might be interested in the details of two spies being murdered. I have pictures and everything, and there will be wine, and I know everyone would be thrilled to meet you.”
― Richard Osman,The Man Who Died Twice

“Was it an invitation? Or an indication of obliviousness? He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain. For all he knew there might be some code among the wanderers of obscure spas by which they found each other quickly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald,Tender Is the Night