Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwellwas an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 May 1883
CityKeokuk, IA
CountryUnited States of America
jealous secret jealous-of-me
The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.
party giving humanity
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
kindness simple fancy
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
boredom
Down with boredom. It has to go.
party aging life-is
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
trying lasts settling
don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.
cemetery bores stills
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
singers psalms righteousness
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
years boredom long
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.
spring good-man kind
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
loneliness good-man priceless
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.
attitude party night
[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 ...
talking bores-you giving
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
leisure use knows
Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.