Julian Fellowes > Quotes

“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
― Julian Fellowes

“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.”
― Julian Fellowes

“We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.”
― Julian Fellowes

“What does she do?"
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.”
― Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect

“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve.”
― Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect

“Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...”
― Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect

“You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.”
― Julian Fellowes

“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“I'm not romantic. But I shall think that the heart has other uses, rather than just pumping blood.”
― Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season One

“When young and clever men are angry, they either explode or achieve great things.”
― Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect

“I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.”
― Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

“The price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.”
― Julian Fellowes

“Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.”
― Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park: The Shooting Script

“I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort”
― Julian Fellowes

“Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don’t learn it young, it’s hard to get the trick of it later.”
― Julian Fellowes

“Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that -- he's an actor!”
― Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park: The Shooting Script

“In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.”
― Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect

“How little Americans know when they disparage acquaintanceship in favour of real, true friendship. It is in acquaintanceship, bringing wiht it as it does delicious dinners, comfortable weekends, gossip shared in picturesque surroundings, but no real intimacy, no responsibility, that the greatest charm of social intercourse lies.”
― Julian Fellowes

“Edith stared at the ceiling, contemplating the oddness of life. Here she was with this man, whom she hardly knew when she really thought about it, asleep, naked, beside her. She pondered that central truth, which must have struck many brides from Marie Antoinette to Wallis Simpson, that whatever the political, social or financial advantages of a great marriage, there comes a moment when everyone leaves the room and you are left alone with a stranger who has the legal right to copulate with you. She was not at all sure that she had fully negotiated this simple fact until then.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.”
― Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park: The Shooting Script

“The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?”
― Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park: The Shooting Script

“When grief is becoming, it is also suspect.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs

“-prietenii, chiar animați de cele mai bune intenții, pot ucide multe iubiri inca din fașă-”
― Julian Fellowes, Snobs