42 Quotes by Elsa Maxwell

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 liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

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

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Cocktails are society’s most enduring invention!

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