Downton Abbey (TV Series)
Episode #1.4 (2010)
Maggie Smith: Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
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Quotes
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [to Mrs. Crawley] You are quite wonderful, the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal.
Isobel Crawley : I take that as a compliment.
[turns and walks in the other direction]
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [laughs] I must have said it wrong.
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Matthew Crawley : The question is, what do I say to Cousin Violet?
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : Oh, don't worry about that. I can handle her.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [Violet enters the room] Really? Well if you can, you must have learned to *very* recently.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner; we'd all be in a state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper.
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Joseph Molesley : I've got Erysipelas, Your Ladyship.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Ooh... oh, I am sorry.
Dr. Clarkson : Mrs. Crawley tells me she's recommended nitrate of silver and tincture of steel.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Well, is she making a suit of armor?
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Good heavens, what am I sitting on?
Matthew Crawley : A swivel chair.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Another modern brain wave?
Matthew Crawley : Not very modern. They were invented by Thomas Jefferson.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Why does every day involve a fight with an American?
Matthew Crawley : I'll fetch you a different one.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : No, no, no, no, I'm a good sailor.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [talking of how to introduce Mary to more society] How about some house parties?
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : She's been asked to one next month by Lady Anne McNair.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Most terrible idea; she doesn't know anyone under a hundred.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : I might send her over to visit my aunt; she could get to know New York.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Oh, I don't think things are quite that desperate.
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Sybil - Sybil darling, why would you want to go to a real school? You're not a doctors daughter!
Lady Sybil Crawley : Nobody learns anything from a governess, apart from French and how to curtsy!
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Well, what else do you need?
Lady Sybil Crawley : Well, there's...
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Are you thinking of a career in banking?
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Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [to the collective] Where's Robert? He can't have been drinking port since we left, he'd be under the table by now.
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Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : Things are different in America.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : I know. They live in wigwams.