[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

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

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

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

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.

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

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.