High Society Maven Mugs

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?"

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

'I suppose you think that's funny.'

'She thinks it makes her look enigmatic.'

"Even my chauffeur has a chauffeur."

"'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?"

'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...'

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

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

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

Afternoon Tea

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

'But sinister gales - with that armour?'

"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!'

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

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

'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).

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

"Mummy was right: - I should've married the dragon...!"