Elsa Maxwell Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Intellectual, Intelligence

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

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Food, Cooking

• 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".

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

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Giving, Humanity

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

• The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Oil, Cocktails

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

• 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”

• [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”

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

  Elsa Maxwell

  New York, Party, People

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