Elsa Maxwell Quotes

Most popular Elsa Maxwell Quotes

Always laugh at yourself first—before others do. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Always laugh at yourself first—before others do.
Enemies to me are the sauce piquante to my dish of life. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Enemies to me are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
— Elsa Maxwell

enemies

Don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

wit humor wit vs. humor

Keep your talent in the dark, and you'll never be insulted. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Keep your talent in the dark, and you'll never be insulted.
— Elsa Maxwell

talent

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

mediocrity

I make enemies deliberately.  They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
I make enemies deliberately.  They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
— Elsa Maxwell New York Journal-American

enemies

Tell the premier that for a party of mine, no one needs to carry a card. Just an invitation. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Tell the premier that for a party of mine, no one needs to carry a card. Just an invitation.
— Elsa Maxwell

Russia

Someone said that life is a party.  You join after it's started and you leave before it's finished. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Someone said that life is a party.  You join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

life

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church, or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
— Elsa Maxwell Forbes

boring people

Good manners—the longer I live the more convinced I am of it—are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
Good manners—the longer I live the more convinced I am of it—are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

manners

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. - Elsa Maxwell quote.
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.

wealth