Elsa Maxwell Quotes

#1. Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Elsa Maxwell

#2. Down with boredom. It has to go.

Elsa Maxwell

#3. Maybe because is December. After all, only when we come to Revelation that we take stock of Genesis, right?

Marlon James

#4. The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

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

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

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#7. The adoption of new technology finally occurs when ease of use, economic savings, and trust all come together to work toward change. EVERYTHING

Alec J. Ross

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

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#9. 'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

Lizzy Caplan

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

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#11. Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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#12. My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology.

Nas

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

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

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#15. Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

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#16. Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

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#17. Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#18. Can I be your only hope? Because your the only hope for me.

Gerard Way

#19. Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

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

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#21. Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it.

Alyssa Day

#22. If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

William Julius Wilson

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

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

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

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#26. It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.

James Weldon Johnson

#27. The wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

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

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#29. It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#30. Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

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#31. Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

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#32. Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

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#33. [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 ...

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

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#35. What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

#36. [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.

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

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#38. Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

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#39. When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

Jeanette Winterson