Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwellwas an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1883
CityKeokuk, IA
CountryUnited States of America
existence join
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
dinner goodness serve
Serve the dinner backward, do anything-but for goodness sake, do something weird.
jealous secret jealous-of-me
The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.
cemetery bores stills
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
talking bores-you giving
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
kindness simple fancy
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
boredom
Down with boredom. It has to go.
hate dont-hate dislike
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
independence mediocrity intolerance
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
book museums trying
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.
attitude party night
[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night ...
new-york party people
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
leisure use knows
Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.
trying lasts settling
don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.