Elsa Maxwell Quotes
- Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
- Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
- Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
- Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
- Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
- A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
- Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
- Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
- Down with boredom. It has to go.
- I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
- The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil
- Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
- I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
- Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
- Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.