The Dowager Countess Quotes

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

Jessica Fellowes

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

Julian Fellowes

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

Jessica Fellowes

#4. What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich?

Upton Sinclair

#5. Well, naturally, some of the animals must have escaped from the Wild World Animal Park, and part of it tried to remember if anyone in school ever told us what to do when faced with a lion; but no, of course they didn't, they were too busy teaching really useful things like the state capitals.

Adam Rex

#6. His jaw was set, telling me I should back off. Unfortunately, being a gobby cow meant I couldn't.

Kyra Lennon

#7. A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Michael Frayn

#8. 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

#9. Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

Steve Goodman

#10. There are two sacred causes in this world," he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. "Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.

Rachel Hartman

#11. It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.

Harvey Milk

#12. Where there is life, there is a hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'

Hunter Hayes

#14. West didn't want her to get hurt anymore. He wanted her to let go. He wanted her to appreciate her life. To know he loved her. All these things sounded so stupid to him when he imagined saying them and he knew she didn't want to hear them anyway. She wanted to hear one thing.

Francesca Lia Block

#15. Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing.Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.

Shimon Peres

#16. 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

#17. 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