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1 " Men are mystifying creatures. For instance why do all men think their penis is a panacea for all the world’s problems? "
― Tyne O'Connell , Latest Accessory (Meet Me at the Bar, #2)
2 " I suppose you’re young,’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo "
3 " The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink’s shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets "
4 " London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss. "
― Tyne O'Connell
5 " I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks "
6 " Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy "
7 " The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive. "
8 " Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore. "
9 " Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria. "
10 " It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress "
11 " I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health "
12 " Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard "
― Tyne O'Connell , Pulling Princes
13 " I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress! "
14 " He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn’t recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron’s Don Juan was par for the course. "
― Tyne O'Connell , Sex, Lies and Litigation (Meet Me at the Bar, #1)
15 " My astrologer predicted a year of successful enterprise and good fortune. So what went wrong? Had there been some ghastly beaureaucratic astral mix up? "
16 " Not only was Miss Cribbe bearded, and always trying to get chummy with us like we we're her real children or something, but she had a disgusting incontinent springer spaniel called Misty, who was constantly sneaking in to the dorms and weeing on our duvets "
17 " The spirit of Mayfair beats in the soul of dandies and dandizettes everywhere. "
― Tyne O'Connell , The Mayfair Cook
18 " It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter. "
19 " Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles. "
20 " Never take drugs before Marmalade "
