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
singers psalms righteousness
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
years boredom long
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.
spring good-man kind
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
cocktails culinary invention
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
party food cooking
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
party fighting fire
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.
party oil cocktails
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil
people rich knows
Most rich people are the poorest people I know.
character successful knives
Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.
party aging life-is
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
reality neurosis moats
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.
fire people church
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
loneliness good-man priceless
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.
party giving humanity
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.