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

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

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

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

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

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.