Thursday 31 January 2013

City of God

"... the social etiquette required for dinner parties at Government House [in Jerusalem under the British Mandate in the 1920s] where Sir Harry Luke, John Chancellor's deputy, remembered how the toastmaster welcomed high commissioners, chief rabbis, chief judges, mayors and patriarchs: 'Your Excellency, Your Honour, Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences, Your Lord Bishops, Your Paternity, Your Reverends, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen.'"

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem, the Biography (2011)