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
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.
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
party aging life-is
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
party giving humanity
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
party genius good-party
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
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.