List of Elsa Maxwell Quotes

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Elsa Maxwell
Total Quotes 21
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.
Years Long People
Don't try for wit. settle for humor. you'll last longer.
Trying Lasts Settling
[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.
Book Museums Trying
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
Singers Psalms Righteousness
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil
Party Oil Cocktails
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.
Talking Bores You Giving
Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.
Use Leisure Know How
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
Food Cooking Cocktails
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Kindness Simple Fancy
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
Independence Mediocrity Intolerance
Most rich people are the poorest people i know.
People Rich Knows
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in new york, you ask one hundred. in hollywood, you invite twenty.
New York Party People
  • Born: May 24, 1883
  • Died: November 1, 1963
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