[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 attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.
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.
- 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.
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses. - Elsa Maxwell
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
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.
Most rich people are the poorest people I know. - Elsa Maxwell
Most rich people are the poorest people I know.
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…
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.
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence. - Elsa Maxwell
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
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