the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.
Elsa MaxwellProtocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.
Elsa Maxwell[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.
Elsa Maxwell