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
dark talent insulted
Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.
laughter laughing firsts
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
party genius good-party
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
dinner goodness serve
Serve the dinner backward, do anything-but for goodness sake, do something weird.
book museums trying
[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.
new-york party people
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.