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.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

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

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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