Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

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.

The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

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

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.