Good manners spring from just one thing – kind impulses.

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

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.

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.

I don’t hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else’s hate.

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

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

Cocktails are society’s most enduring invention!

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.