Quotes from Elsa Maxwell

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

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

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

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

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

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

laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

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

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

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

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