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

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

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

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

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.