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

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.

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

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

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

[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.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!