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

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

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

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

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

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 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.