Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

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

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.

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

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.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

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.