A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
- Elsa Maxwell Quote

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
- Elsa Maxwell Quote

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

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
- Elsa Maxwell Quote

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
- Elsa Maxwell Quote

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
- 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 Quote