Elsa Maxwell Quotes

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

Weird, Goodness, Serve

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

Music, Marriage, Husband

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

Society, Nothing, Everything

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
Elsa Maxwell

Life, Sauce, Dish

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

Fire, Church, Pressure

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Elsa Maxwell

Put, While, Mental

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
Elsa Maxwell

Before, After, Leave

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

Humanity, Giving, Union

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

Hate, Else, Anyone

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

Life, Someone, Before

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 24, 1883

Died: November 1, 1963

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