Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
- Elsa Maxwell
Marriage, Music, Seeing, Unhappiness
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
- Elsa Maxwell
Union, Trivial, Parties, Dues
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
- Elsa Maxwell
Walking, Bores, Still, Cemetery
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
- Elsa Maxwell
Started, Before, Finished, Party
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
Always, Sucking, Eager, Cleaner
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
- Elsa Maxwell
Church, Pressure, Robbing, Bores
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
- Elsa Maxwell
Sauce, Deliberately, Dish, Enemies
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
- Elsa Maxwell
Change, Weird, Backward, Sake
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
- Elsa Maxwell
Existence, Leave, Before, Finished
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
- Elsa Maxwell
Dislike, Anyone, Else, Equivalent
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