Hostess Clubs

Famous quotes containing the words hostess and/or clubs:

    “They own Spode, Lowestoft, candelabra,
    Mantels, and hostess gowns, and sunburst clocks,
    Turtle soup, Chippendale, red stain “hangings,”
    Aubussons and Hattie Carnegie.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)