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

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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.

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

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

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.