Melindam

“There are several ways," he said shyly, "in which I'm trying to improve myself. I have a great many books and records and now I'm learning to play golf. Do you know golf, Sister? The English think it's a very serious game. I was going to learn a much more serious game called cricket, but you need twenty two people...”
― Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus

“All thirty-one of the Lavish lawyers stood up and spoke at once, incurring a total cost to their clients of of AM$119.28.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

“The two of them, the group captain and the princess had called it a day.four years before when she was 25 years old. But when you are royal, nothing is allowed to be forgotten. That is the price to pay for being part of history.”
― Craig Brown, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

“Princess Margaret felt most at home in the company of the camp: the cultured and the waspish. It was to be her misfortune that such a high proportion of them kept diaries and moreover, diaries written with a view to publication. To a man they were mesmerised less by her image than by the cracks to be found in it.”
― Craig Brown, Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret