Elsa Maxwell Quotes


"Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Life, Party)

"Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Goodness)

"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Marriage, Music, HusbContent, Friends, Laughter, Unhappiness)

"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: People, Church, Being, Fire, Murder, Pressure)

"Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Existence, Party)

"Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Walking)

"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
(Related: Society, Giving, Nothing, Talking)

"I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Life, Enemies)

"I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate."
- Elsa Maxwell
(Related: Hate)