Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.
Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.