[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. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
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