42 Quotes by Elsa Maxwell

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

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

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

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Down with boredom. It has to go.

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

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

[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 ...

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