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Maggie Smith Quotes

Total quotes: 26
“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
“[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
“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
“I am an expert in every matter.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Expert, Egotistical
“What simpletons men are!”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: simpletons, Misandry
“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
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: Sarcasm, wit
“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
“Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Let's not argue.

Violet Crawley: I never argue, I explain.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey
Tagged: argue, explain
“Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.”
— Maggie Smith, Good Bones
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Poems About Life
“The only disease that can survive in our bloodstreams is alcoholism.”
— Caro Eliza Bennett, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Tagged: disease, bloodstream, Alcoholism
“It's the job of grandmothers to interfere!”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 4: Episode 1
Tagged: grandmothers, interfere, Meddlesome
“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
“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
“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
“I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Four
Tagged: Woman, contrary
“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
“We can't have him assassinated. I suppose.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Seven
Tagged: Assassination, Wisdom
“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
“No one wants to kiss a girl in black.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Two
Tagged: kiss, Girl, black clothing
“How do I update the image of home in my own mind? How do I unblur it?”
— Maggie Smith, Tracking the Demise of My Marriage on Google Maps
Tagged: Endings, Divorce, Breaking Up, separation, Heartbreak, Memories
“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
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 3
Tagged: wit
“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
“Every woman goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.”
— Dowager Countess, Downton Abbey, Series 5: Episode 2
Tagged: Marriage, tongue in cheek
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