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

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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

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