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.

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

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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

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

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.