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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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.

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.

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

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.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.