High Society Maven Gifts

The card room at Bath

Sloaney Pony.

'Don't worry about it. If at first we don't succeed, we can do it later and get paid time-and-a-half for it.'

Hamish Harris. The boy bon vivant.

"Like that?"

"A Bill of Rights? - Don't you TRUST me?"

'She thinks it makes her look enigmatic.'

'I suppose you think that's funny.'

'Better brace yourself. It looks as though your broker's now equipping your monthly statement with crumple zones.'

Prepare to meet thy mechanic.

Sadie, I just heard something disturbing, and I think you're the only one who can tell me whether it's true. Youtube is telling me we've lived 300 years of phantom time. Pope Gregory XIII's math was off when he created our calendar, and this is actually the year 1717. What's more, the "Middle Ages" is just a fiction the pope created to explain his rounding error. You were there, Sadie ... Did King Arthur really exist? I'll tell you all about that nice boy, as soon as I demonstrate how we dealt w

"'Mr. Evans,' she said to me with that adorable smile, 'I think you're the nicest boy in the entire old-boy network.'"

"For drinks or dinner?"

"Even my chauffeur has a chauffeur."

'But why do you want to transmute asparagus into cotton?'

"Pat's independently wealthy and dependably entertaining."

'I'm putting you on a diet: No more fat knights, maidens only...'

Don't bother Daddy -- he's just upset because Lady Godiva joined the anti-Crusade movement.'

'A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper'- George III Inspecting Engraving of Oliver Cromwell

"I think glamour is fine until it slips over into glitz."

'But sinister gales - with that armour?'

Greek Tragedy: 'Yes... we agree to further cuts in government spendings..!!!'

Afternoon Tea

"That metallic grinding means her throwout bearings are shot. She's backfiring through her carburetor. The tick indicates transmission trouble, and the smoke means she's on fire."

The King and His Real Estate Advisors

'You can read, right? -- I want you to check this thing for loopholes.'

'New money or old money?'

The Venerable Bede

"Now I'm well, I miss my doctor."

'The rich get richer, the poorer get poorer..' '..And the comfortably off stay comfortably off!'

'That was your grandfather -- his catapult went off while he was cleaning it.'

In his Last Moments, A Soldier Seeks Forgiveness for his Sins (History of the Crusades).

"Templeton, its Friday, so be so good as to inform her ladyship that it's sex after bridge this evening"

"Imogene is just back from an extended trip through the Navajo country."

'If I were you, I'd leave the keys in the ignition and hope someone steals it.'