Elsa Maxwell Quotes

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• Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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

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  Party, Food, Cooking

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• I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

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  Enemy, Sauce, Dishes

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• Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Kindness, Simple, Fancy

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• Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Literature, Aging

  "How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining".

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• 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.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Loneliness, Good Man, Priceless

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• 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.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Fighting, Fire

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

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  Cemetery, Bores, Stills

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• Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

  Elsa Maxwell

  Food, Cooking, Cocktails

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• To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

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  New York, Party, People

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

  Elsa Maxwell

  Dark, Talent, Insulted

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• Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

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  People, Rich, Knows

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Competition, Intellectual, May

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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• Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

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  Independence, Mediocrity, Intolerance

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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

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  Hate, Literature, Don't Hate

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• Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

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  Spring, Good Man, Kind

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• The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.

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  Jealous, Secret, Jealous Of Me

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• Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

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  Fire, People, Church

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Down with boredom. It has to go.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Boredom

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• Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

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  Party, Giving, Humanity

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Reality, Moats, Neurosis

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

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• Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

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  Happiness, Marriage, Wedding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Character, Successful, Knives

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• [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.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Attitude, Party, Night

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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