[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

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

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

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

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

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

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.