Sir Richard Carlisle: Do you enjoy these games? In which the player must appear ridiculous?
Dowager Countess of Grantham: Sir Richard, life is a game where the players must appear ridiculous.
Sir Richard Carlisle: Not my life.
-Julian Fellowes in the Christmas special of Downton Abbey.
Categories: Games, Life, Ridiculous
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posted on March 27th, 2012 with no comments.
I don’t think we can say should about things that happen in war. It just happens and we should live with it.
-Julian Fellowes in episode 2.6 of Downton Abbey, by the character of Lady Mary Crawley as played by Michelle Dockery.
Categories: Memory, Morality, Perseverance, Should, War
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posted on March 22nd, 2012 with no comments.
Not dreading it exactly, but it is a brave, new world we are heading for; no doubt about that. We must try to meet it with as much grace as we can muster.
-Julian Fellowes writer of Episode 2.2 of Downton Abbey, for the character Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, played by Hugh Bonneville.
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posted on January 21st, 2012 with no comments.
