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.
party genius good-party
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
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.
party oil cocktails
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil
party fighting fire
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.
fire people church
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
party food cooking
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
cocktails culinary invention
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
kindness simple fancy
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
party aging life-is
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
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.