Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

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

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

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.

[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.

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