42 Quotes by Elsa Maxwell

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

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 another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.