Quotes by Elsa Maxwell

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
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
– Elsa Maxwell
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
– Elsa Maxwell
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
– Elsa Maxwell
Serve the dinner backward, do anything-but for goodness sake, do something weird.
– Elsa Maxwell
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
– 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
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
– 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