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Julian Fellowes Quotes

Total quotes: 43
“I don't dislike him. I just don't like him, which is quite different.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Six
Tagged: Dislike, like
“You can change your life if you want to. Sometimes you have to be hard on yourself, but you can change it completely.”
— John Bates, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Three
Tagged: Life, Change
“War breaks down barriers and when peacetime re-erects them, it's very easy to find oneself on the wrong side.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Four
Tagged: War, peacetime
“The truth is neither here nor there. It's the look of the thing that matters.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Two
Tagged: Truth, Appearance
“Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It is only afterwards they share their doubts.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Eight
Tagged: Lawyers, confident, Trial, Doubts
“When tragedy strikes there is a abject of blame. And in the events of tragedy we usually blame ourselves. You are not to blame. No one is to blame.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 5
Tagged: Tragedy, Marriage
“Every mountain is 'unclimbable' until someone climbs it. So every ship is 'unsinkable' until it sinks.”
— Robert Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode One
Tagged: Mountain, Obstacles, Determination
“One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a constant state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Three
Tagged: Death, Foreigner, newspaper
“[to Thomas] War has a way of distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that don't.”
— Matthew Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode One
Tagged: War, What Matters
“Love is like riding or speaking French: if you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.”
— Hugh "Shrimpie" MacClare, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 8
Tagged: Love, Riding, speaking french, young
“Violet Crawley: Will you have enough clichés to get you through the visit?

Isobel Merton: If not, I'll come to you.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Cliches
“I know what it is to work now. To have a full day, to be tired in a good way.”
— Sybil Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Seven
Tagged: Work, Good work
“No farmer is his own boss—he takes his orders from the sun and the snow and the wind and the rain.”
— Daisy Mason, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 6
Tagged: Farmer, boss, Sun, Snow, Wind, Rain
“Violet Crawley: Machiavelli is frequently underrated. He had many qualities.

Isobel Merton: So did Caligula—not all of them charming.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Machiavelli, Caligula, Underrated
“Isobel Merton: Oh, Violet. After all these years you still astonish me.

Violet Crawley: Oh, good, I'm glad I'm a revelation and not a disappointment.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Revelation, astonish, Disappointment
“Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: No maid, no valet, no nanny, even!

Bertie Hexham: It's 1927. We're modern folk.”
— Robert Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: maid, Valet, nanny, upper class, Modern
“Dowager Countess: Will you have enough clichés to get through the visit?

Isobel: If not, I’ll come to you.”
— Isobel Merton, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Cliches
“I love you, Mr. Bates. I know it's not ladylike to say it, but I'm not a lady, and I don't pretend to be.”
— Anna Smith, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Four
Tagged: Love, Ladylike
“Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Let's not argue.

Violet Crawley: I never argue, I explain.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: argue, explain
“Sometimes a hard sacrifice must be made for a future that's worth havin'.”
— Tom Branson, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Five
Tagged: Sacrifice, Future
“Nothing is as changeable as a young man's heart. Take hope--and warning--from that.”
— Mrs. Patmore, Downton Abbey, Series 4: Episode 2
Tagged: tongue in cheek, Warning, heart
“It's the job of grandmothers to interfere!”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 4: Episode 1
Tagged: grandmothers, interfere, Meddlesome
“The point is, I'll be fine until I'm not. That's all that is to it.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Fine, until i'm not
“I told you I wanted to help.
”
— Isobel Merton, Downton Abbey
Tagged: helpful
“What the eye can't see the heart won't grieve over.”
— Mrs. Patmore, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Five
Tagged: Eye, heart, Grief
“We can't have him assassinated. I suppose.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Seven
Tagged: Assassination, Wisdom
“I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Four
Tagged: Woman, contrary
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Sarcasm, wit
“We're not footballs and we don't deserve a kicking.”
— Daisy Mason, Downton Abbey
Tagged: footballs, kicking, Abuse, Defiance
“I know it's cliché, but I believe she died of a broken heart.”
— Matthew Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Eight
Tagged: cliche, Broken Heart
“I am an expert in every matter.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Expert, Egotistical
“A shy royal? Is that an oxymoron?”
— Robert Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: shy royal, Oxymoron
“Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: You Americans never understand the importance of tradition.

Martha Levinson: Yes we do. We just don't give it power over us... history and tradition took Europe into a world war. Maybe you should think about letting go of its hand.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 1
Tagged: Tradition, Americans, Europe, world war
“If you must pay money, better to a doctor than an undertaker.”
— Mrs. Patmore, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 2
Tagged: Money, doctor, undertaker
“What simpletons men are!”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: simpletons, Misandry
“Politicians often can't recognize the changes that are inevitable.”
— Branson, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Six
Tagged: political, Reflection
“No one wants to kiss a girl in black.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Two
Tagged: kiss, Girl, black clothing
“[to Lady Mary] You are the future of Downton.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Future
“Royal women are not meant to grin like Cheshire cats.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: royal women, cheshire cat
“Well, if it's in the papers, it must be true!”
— Tom Branson, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Newspapers, Truth, Fake News
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