Downton Abbey (TV Series)
Episode #1.7 (2010)
Maggie Smith: Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Quotes
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [to Mrs. Crawley when they realize Mary will not take Matthew despite the fact that he remains the heir to the title and estate] Your quarrel is with my daughter, Rosamund, and not with me. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : I know those men of the moral high ground - if she won't say yes when he might be poor, he won't want her when he *will* be rich.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : I'm afraid your meddling has cost Mary the only decent offer she'll ever get.
Lady Rosamund Painswick : I'm sorry, Mama, but you know me. I have to say what I think.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Why? Nobody else does.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : We can't have him assassinated. I suppose.
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Lady Sybil Crawley : No one ever learned anything from a governess except for French, and how to curtsy.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : What more do you need?
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Mary, listen to me. If you take Matthew now, when his whole future is at risk, he will love you to the end of his days.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : First, electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [to Cora] I come in peace.