What is a bore? Maxwell definition: a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. How do you spot one? Bores are always anxious to be seen talking to you.

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

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

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

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