Don't need an invitation if there's no house.
— Jerry, Fright Night (2011)
“X-ray vision,” said the Englishman. “Just had to make certain. There are, you see, certain things that cannot get inside one’s house unless one invites them.”
Supergirl considered that. She’d read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, like a lot of kids her age did, when she was in Midvale Orphanage. But to think that ‘enter freely, and of your own will’ had some bearing in the real world... She shuddered. Well, if vampires existed, at least they weren’t rude enough just to barge in your front door without an invite.
Supergirl considered that. She’d read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, like a lot of kids her age did, when she was in Midvale Orphanage. But to think that ‘enter freely, and of your own will’ had some bearing in the real world... She shuddered. Well, if vampires existed, at least they weren’t rude enough just to barge in your front door without an invite.
Faust: A knock? Enter! Who’s plaguing me again?
Mephistopheles: I am.
Faust: Enter!
Mephistopheles: Three times you must say it, then.
Mephistopheles: I am.
Faust: Enter!
Mephistopheles: Three times you must say it, then.
— Faust
"See, I got hungers that ain't easily fed. But those finest tables? They ain't never got a seat for me. So I need men, like yourself, to let me in."
— Tahm Kench, League of Legends
Everyone knows a vampire don't got no power over you unless you invite it in, and if it's a king doing the inviting, then they've got their teeth into the whole country!
— Granny Weatherwax, Carpe Jugulum
"I rock the house...once I'm invited into it!"
— Count Dracula, Epic Rap Battles of History
