Quotes from Ward McAllister

There are only about 400 people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.