Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day.
Quotes
[edit]How to Do It (1957)
[edit]- Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
- 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 eager to be seen talking to you.
- Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
- Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Elsa Maxwell on Wikipedia
