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
dinner goodness serve
Serve the dinner backward, do anything-but for goodness sake, do something weird.
enemy sauce dishes
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
marriage wedding husband
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
fire people church
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
cocktails culinary invention
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
kindness simple fancy
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
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.
spring good-man kind
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
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.
existence join
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.