Top 25 Quotes by Elsa Maxwell of 32 - Page 2

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

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

Elsa Maxwell

Use, Leisure, Know How

Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Elsa Maxwell

Party, Oil, Cocktails

Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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.

Elsa Maxwell

Talking, Bores You, Giving

"How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining".

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

Elsa Maxwell

Singers, Psalms, Righteousness

Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's own story”

[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.

Elsa Maxwell

Book, Museums, Trying

Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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.

Elsa Maxwell

Years, Long, People

Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”