Downton Abbey (TV Series)
Episode #3.4 (2012)
Maggie Smith: Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Quotes
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Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : I think Granny's right.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Can somebody write that down?
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Thank you, my dear. That's very kind. How much do I owe you?
Lady Edith Crawley : A guinea.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : A guinea? For a bottle of scent? Did he have a mask and a gun?
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Tom Branson : They turned everyone out of the castle - Lord and Lady John Guillamore, their sons, and all the servants, and then they set fire to it.
Lady Edith Crawley : What a tragedy.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Well, rather yes and no, that house *was* hideous... of course that is no excuse.
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Tom Branson : Those places are different for me. I don't look at them and see charm and gracious living - I see something horrible.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : With Drumgold Castle, I rather agree.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : Mama, you are *not* helping.
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : What do you mean, you wrote to a newspaper? No lady writes to a newspaper!
Lady Edith Crawley : What about Lady Sarah Wilson? She's the daughter of a duke, and she worked as a war journalist
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Well, she's a Churchill. The Churchills are different
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Lady Mary Crawley : [re: handsome new footman James] Well done Carson - that must have cheered up the maids.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : He looks like a footman in a musical revue.
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Matthew Crawley : So what was the deal you managed to extract from the Home Secretary?
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : They don't want to make a martyr of him
[Tom]
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : .
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : ...and with Sybil, they think they could have another Maud Gonne on their hands, or Lady Gregory, or worse if they're not careful.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Lady Gregory, Countess Markievicz - why are the Irish rebels so well born?
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : Whatever the reason, I don't want Lady Sybil Branson to join their ranks. Mercifully, neither do the Irish authorities.
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Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : I worry about you. That sort of thing is so horrid.
Lady Edith Crawley : Being jilted at the altar, yes, it is horrid.