Union Card Quotes by Elsa Maxwell

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Elsa Maxwell has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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.

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