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
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it’s started and leave before it’s finished. – Elsa Maxwell
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. – Elsa Maxwell
I don’t hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else’s hate. – Elsa Maxwell
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. – Elsa Maxwell
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. – Elsa Maxwell
