Dowager Countess Quotes

#1. I love being in scenes where I get to be part of a Maggie Smith put-down. A Dowager Countess put-down is always a special moment. Especially if you're working on set and she managed to do one off set at you.

Allen Leech

#2. The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

Eva Ibbotson

#3. Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Isabel Allende

#5. Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating,

Thomas Sankara

#6. Violet, the Dowager Countess: I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

Jessica Fellowes

#7. Think good thoughts, cause thoughts are things

Judy Edwards

#8. Violet, the Dowager Countess: 'I have plenty of friends I don't like.

Jessica Fellowes

#9. Life should be dealt with in small bites, large gulps will choke you.

TA Guimont

#10. [War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy

#11. We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.

Ban Ki-moon

#12. And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks.
Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.
- from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin

Julia Quinn

#13. Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

Holliday Grainger

#14. Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)

Julian Fellowes