Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity..

Down with boredom. It has to go..

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores..

The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me..

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband..

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness..

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird..

[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 attitu….

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors..

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 a….

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life..

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is….

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-call….

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence..

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking..

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty..

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted..

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses..

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can..

Most rich people are the poorest people I know..

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished..