Downton Abbey (TV Series)
Episode #6.4 (2015)
Maggie Smith: Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Quotes
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Lady Edith Crawley : [re Isobel] I suppose she is entitled to put up an argument.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Of course she is. She's just not allowed to *win* it.
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : I haven't been in the kitchen for at least twenty years!
Isobel Crawley : Have you got your passport?
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : For years, I have watched governments take control of our lives and their argument is always the same fewer costs, greater efficiency. But the result is the same too. Less control by the people, more control by the state, until the individual's own wishes count for nothing.
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Lady Shackleton : How can I present myself if I don't know the facts...
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : It never stopped *me*!
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [to Shackleton] Are you here to help or irritate ?
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Lady Shackleton : [re: Henry Talbot's thin chance at peerage] Forty strong men would have to drop dead.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Well, nothing is impossible.
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Really, Robert, you paint me as such a schemer.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : No one has sharper eyes than a loving son.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : You read that somewhere!
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : Why do you think I can never make anything up?
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : There you all are - *plotting*.