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

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.

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

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.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.