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. — 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
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
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share
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
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
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
Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share
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
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share
