Elsa Maxwell Quotes - Page 2

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• Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Use, Leisure, Know How

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

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

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Oil, Cocktails

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

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• What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Talking, Bores You, Giving

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

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• The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Singers, Psalms, Righteousness

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

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• [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.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Museums, Trying

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

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• People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Years, Long, People

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

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• don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Trying, Lasts, Settling

  Elsa Maxwell (1957). “How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining”

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