Elsa Maxwell Quote

I hate cocktail parties. They're for people who're not good enough to invite for dinner—then they stay to dinner.


quoted in a letter to The New York Times from Harvard Hollenberg of New York City, Dec. 22, 1989


I hate cocktail parties. They're for people who're not good enough to invite for dinner—then they stay to dinner.

I hate cocktail parties. They're for people who're not good enough to invite for dinner—then they stay to dinner.

I hate cocktail parties. They're for people who're not good enough to invite for dinner—then they stay to dinner.

I hate cocktail parties. They're for people who're not good enough to invite for dinner—then they stay to dinner.