[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.
Elsa MaxwellTo get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
Elsa MaxwellSeeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Elsa Maxwell