To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses. - Elsa Maxwell
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
- Elsa Maxwell
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. - Elsa Maxwell
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished. - Elsa Maxwell
Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. - Elsa Maxwell
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. - Elsa Maxwell
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-call… - Elsa Maxwell
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. - Elsa Maxwell
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
Most rich people are the poorest people I know. - Elsa Maxwell
Most rich people are the poorest people I know.
The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me. - Elsa Maxwell
The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.
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