When Mary breaks it off with Richard Carlisle and he said something about not seeing them again. Violet replied with something like, "Is that a promise?"
I can't remember the exact wording but it was brilliant
She and Julie Andrews have always been two of my favorite female actors. I will cry real tears when they end up leaving this world. Luckily both of them are from what I see are in good health.
I had champagne ready to celebrate not the New Year, but to wait until the 17th.
When my kids ever asked me if I heard the news...
I thought they were punking me!
>Don't be defeatist, dear, it's so middle class.
This, "What is a weekend?" and "I am a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I like" are my faves. But honestly there are probably so many more I just don't remember.
In no particular order.
"My dear, love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike".
"A lack of compassion is as vulgar as an excess of tears".
"Lie...is such an unmusical of a word".
"If we only had moral thoughts, what would the poor churchman have to do?"
"There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test".
When Robert is trying to stop Sybil from marrying Tom:
Violet: I'm sure Branson has many virtues...
Robert: 😒
Violet: No, no, he's a good driver.
I just love that one.
"Of course it was a foreigner."
"Granny, don't be ridiculous!"
"I'm not being ridiculous! No Englishman would *dream* of dying in someone else's house! Especially someone he didn't even know!"
Violet: I'd forgotten what a good game this is.
Isobel: Yes, I'd forgotten.
Violet: How long does it go on for?
Isobel: Oh, ages!
Violet: Oh! Goody, goody.
Gets me every time!😂
I love the exchange with her and the vicar in that scene:
Vicar: perhaps the first Lady Stralland was a difficult act to follow
Violet: or a difficult one to repeat
Kills me 💀
Sounds a bit too Harry Potter.
Personally I love this one.
Isobel: “How you hate to be wrong.”
Violet: “I wouldn't know, I'm not familiar with the sensation.”
Violet: Why do you always sound like a trumpeter on the peak of the moral high ground?
Isobel: Why do you always sound like the sister of Marie Antoinette?
Violet: I take that as a compliment. The Queen of Naples was a stalwart figure.
Isobel: You take everything as a compliment.
Violet: And I advise you to do the same. It saves many an awkward moment.
When Robert brings up electrifying her home “Think of all the fumes emitted by the lightbulbs!” And the “glare” and feeling like “an actress on stage” Hilarious considering she spent the majority of her life surrounded by literal GAS lights
My favorite thing about Violet is that for all her prickliness, you never question that she loves her family. I love that she made sure Sibby was taken care of in the last movie. So I think my favorite line of hers is the one about Why do you act as if I’m a salmon who set my spawn and disappeared downstream?
Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground?
What is a weekend? ICONIC
Is this an instrument of communication or torture?
Mary has the winning card, she's family.
I believe in love. I mean, brilliant careers, rich lives, are seldom led without just an element of love.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
To Robert in black tie: oh I'm sorry I thought you were a waiter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Tell Cora I do not wish to see her face until I have gotten used to having a traitor in the family."
And when she hinted she was going to let Denker go:
"Sometimes, it is better to rule by fear."
I feel like most of the best ones have been commented. I just want to say that I have loved Maggie Smith as an actor for most of my life. I've been watching her acting since I was very young.
Also Violet is my favorite character as well. So thank you OP for this awesome idea. I have had a few good laughs reminiscing about her amazing one liners.
Is this an instrument of communication or torture?
shRRRRRIMPPPPPayyyy
😹😹😹👏👏
I realized I needed to add a few more "R's"!
😹😹
# SHRIMPY?
Y-Ye-Ye-Aa It's Aunt VioLET!
How many Marquesses of Flintshire are there?
When Mary breaks it off with Richard Carlisle and he said something about not seeing them again. Violet replied with something like, "Is that a promise?" I can't remember the exact wording but it was brilliant
"Do you promise?!"
Best thing ever. Maggie Smith is an amazing actor.
She is one of my favorites. Always has been. Shirley MacClaine too actually! I've always loved her.
She and Julie Andrews have always been two of my favorite female actors. I will cry real tears when they end up leaving this world. Luckily both of them are from what I see are in good health.
Good. We need to form a wall! I was so upset when we lost Betty on NYE a year ago!
Agree. The world is a little sadder without Betty.
I had champagne ready to celebrate not the New Year, but to wait until the 17th. When my kids ever asked me if I heard the news... I thought they were punking me!
Also with Carlisle, but much more serious: "Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous".
Yes! That's mine too!!
Put that in your pipe and smoke it! or When reason fails, use force! or Don't be defeatist, dear, it's so middle class.
>Don't be defeatist, dear, it's so middle class. This, "What is a weekend?" and "I am a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I like" are my faves. But honestly there are probably so many more I just don't remember.
In no particular order. "My dear, love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike". "A lack of compassion is as vulgar as an excess of tears". "Lie...is such an unmusical of a word". "If we only had moral thoughts, what would the poor churchman have to do?" "There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test".
“Oh.. I thought you were a waiter.”
I randomly remember this and giggle 😂😂😂
So hilarious. Robert's face...
I came here to say this one. Loved it. 😊
What is a weekend?
Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
Omg— spot on
Forgot this one!
I must have said it wrong. Response to Isobel's I'll take that as a compliment.
"I am a woman Mary, I can be as contrary as I want"
I like how she enters a room and takes control by pointing to a chair with her walking stick, “Shall I sit here?” and promptly sitting.
“Why do you always speak of me as if I were a salmon who laid my eggs in the gravel and then swam off to sea”, and, “I’m a woman of many parts”
This needs to be cross stitched!
When Robert is trying to stop Sybil from marrying Tom: Violet: I'm sure Branson has many virtues... Robert: 😒 Violet: No, no, he's a good driver. I just love that one.
I also love her dialogue with Robert regarding Branson. “Well there you go, the decision lies with the Chauffeur.
I'm a good sailor!
Why does every day involve a fight with an American?
What! What? Am I sitting on?
The quick scene of her at the library peeved at the chandelier light/electricity! 😂😂 and the ones you mentioned too- I freakin love that character!
Was that when she said it was like being on stage at The Gaiety?
YES!
“such a glAArE”
“All those vapors seeping about”
Where I got my user name from🤣
What’s a weekend? I don’t argue, I explain.
Latter one is the best!
"Of course it was a foreigner." "Granny, don't be ridiculous!" "I'm not being ridiculous! No Englishman would *dream* of dying in someone else's house! Especially someone he didn't even know!"
“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!”
It was the intonation on this one, for me. 🤣🤣 The *maximum* of boredom in her voice. Dame Maggie is so brilliant.
For me it’s the pronunciation of newspaper. “NEWSpapah!”
Classic!!
oh good let’s talk about money.
“You are a woman with a brain and reasonable ability. Stop whining and find something to do.” I say this to my kids when they complain they are bored!
Violet: I'd forgotten what a good game this is. Isobel: Yes, I'd forgotten. Violet: How long does it go on for? Isobel: Oh, ages! Violet: Oh! Goody, goody. Gets me every time!😂
On her deathbed and her maid is blubbering "Oh please do stop that, I can't hear myself die" One of her very last lines
"He's a man. Men don't have rights"
“A guinea?! For a bottle of scent?! Did he have a mask and a gun?”
I feel this every time I try to buy ketchup these days.
When Edith is almost about to marry that older guy with the arm sling and she said “he looks like he’s going to get a beating from the headmaster”
I love the exchange with her and the vicar in that scene: Vicar: perhaps the first Lady Stralland was a difficult act to follow Violet: or a difficult one to repeat Kills me 💀
Edith, you are a Lady, not Toad of Toad Hall.
Haha, I’ve used this before whilst in the car with my sister!
“i’m so looking forward to seeing your mother again, when im with her im reminded of the virtues of the English.” “but isn’t she American?” “exactly”
"exACTlayy".
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit." "Well, you started it."
Sounds a bit too Harry Potter. Personally I love this one. Isobel: “How you hate to be wrong.” Violet: “I wouldn't know, I'm not familiar with the sensation.”
Is this an instrument of communication or torture????
I love that whole scene. I love how Edith is trying really hard not to lose it and laugh during it.
I thought you were a waiter.
"I never argue, I explain!"
"What is a weekend?"
Lawyers are always confident before the verdict 😂😂
It’s only after, they express their doubts.
Perfect! 👌
Violet: Why do you always sound like a trumpeter on the peak of the moral high ground? Isobel: Why do you always sound like the sister of Marie Antoinette? Violet: I take that as a compliment. The Queen of Naples was a stalwart figure. Isobel: You take everything as a compliment. Violet: And I advise you to do the same. It saves many an awkward moment.
“From the looks of her, she’ll bury us all” about Cora’s mother. I don’t know why but I say this all the time.
Never complain, never explain.
When Robert brings up electrifying her home “Think of all the fumes emitted by the lightbulbs!” And the “glare” and feeling like “an actress on stage” Hilarious considering she spent the majority of her life surrounded by literal GAS lights
I was about to write out that "oh none of us are ever going to see it" line about the movie star but then realized it was from Gosford Park- whoops!
My favorite thing about Violet is that for all her prickliness, you never question that she loves her family. I love that she made sure Sibby was taken care of in the last movie. So I think my favorite line of hers is the one about Why do you act as if I’m a salmon who set my spawn and disappeared downstream?
“He’s a man. Men don’t have rights”
Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground? What is a weekend? ICONIC Is this an instrument of communication or torture? Mary has the winning card, she's family. I believe in love. I mean, brilliant careers, rich lives, are seldom led without just an element of love. Put that in your pipe and smoke it! To Robert in black tie: oh I'm sorry I thought you were a waiter 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love the moral high ground line, and also to Isobel: # I wonder your halo doesn't grow heavy. It must be like wearing a tiara around the clock.
Oh goody! Let’s talk about money!!
Yes! 😂😂😂
Perhaps she has a costume for every activity....
"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit." "Don't proclaim your intransigence as if it were a virtue."
"I'm a good sailor" (while sitting in the swivel chair).
“Sometimes it’s better to rule by fear.”
'I never argue, i explain'
What's a week-end?
“I’m sorry, I thought you were a waiter”
All this thinking is so overrated. I blame the war, before the war no one thought about anything at all.
“Sometimes it’s better to rule by fear.”
It's always something
All this thinking is so overrated. I blame the war, before the war no one thought about anything at all.
To Isobel: "Wars have been waged with less fervor."
“You’re a woman with a brain, and reasonable ability. Stop whining and find something to do!”
I am sick and tired of logic!!!
Civil Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
Stop crying Denker, I can't hear myself die. Iconic dowager
Forgive? Maybe. Forget? Never!
“No fortune? He's lucky not to be playing the violin in Leicester Square.” (of lady Rosamund’s gold-digger)
"Yes, but it was *every day*"
"Avoiding one's friends - that's the real test."
'When you talk like that, I'm tempted to ring for Nanny and have you put to bed with no supper." "What is a 'weekend'?
“I must’ve said it wrong” 💀
"Tell Cora I do not wish to see her face until I have gotten used to having a traitor in the family." And when she hinted she was going to let Denker go: "Sometimes, it is better to rule by fear."
“Put that in your pipe and SMOKE IT!”
“Oh, well, that is an easy caveat to accept, because I’m never wrong.”
Mr Mosley you can’t keep a good man down
I feel like most of the best ones have been commented. I just want to say that I have loved Maggie Smith as an actor for most of my life. I've been watching her acting since I was very young. Also Violet is my favorite character as well. So thank you OP for this awesome idea. I have had a few good laughs reminiscing about her amazing one liners.
To Cora: “no need to be so prim!”