Elsa Maxwell Party Quotations

[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 ...

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

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

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.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

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

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

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.