1- “All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve.” -Dowager Countess
2- “What is a weekend?” -Dowager Countess
3- “No life appears rewarding if you think about it too much.” -Dowager Countess
4- “I do hope I’m interrupting something…” -Dowager Countess
5- “We don’t always get our just desserts.” -Dowager Countess
6- “All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve, first one and then the next and then the next, until at last we die.” -Dowager Countess
7- “Sir Richard, life is a game, where the player must appear ridiculous.” -Dowager Countess
8- “Hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.” -Dowager Countess
9- “You are a woman with a brain and reasonable ability. Stop whining and find something to do.” -Dowager Countess
10- “An unlucky friend is tiresome enough, an unlucky acquaintance is intolerable.” -Dowager Countess
11- “Don’t be defeatist, dear, it’s very middle class.” -Dowager Countess
12- “The presence of strangers is our only guarantee of good behaviour.” -Dowager Countess
13- “Edith, you are a lady, not toad of toad Hall.” -Dowager Countess
14- “You know me: never complain, never explain.” -Dowager Countess
15- “There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test.” -Dowager Countess
16- “Nothing succeeds like excess.” -Dowager Countess
17- “If she won’t say yes when he might be poor, he won’t want her when he will be rich.” -Dowager Countess
18- “I was right about my maid. She’s leaving to get married. I mean, how could she be so selfish?” -Dowager Countess
19- “No one wants to kiss a girl in black.” -Dowager Countess
20- “Spratt, I think Dr Clarkson would like some coffee… and don’t be such a snob.” -Dowager Countess
21- “We’ll have to take her abroad, in these moments you can usually find an Italian who’s not too picky.” -Dowager Countess
22- “I hope your standards are not so high as to prevent you from remaining in my employment.” -Dowager Countess
23- “At my age, one must ration one’s excitement.” -Dowager Countess
24- “We all pander to Spratt in this house.” -Dowager Countess
25- “Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.” -Dowager Countess
26- “Typical Spratt. He’s as touchy as a beauty losing her looks.” -Dowager Countess
27- “Of course it would happen to a foreigner. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else’s house.” -Dowager Countess
28- “First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.” -Dowager Countess
29- “All this unbridled joy has given me quite an appetite.” -Dowager Countess
30- “I couldn’t have electricity in the house, I wouldn’t sleep a wink. All those vapors floating about.” -Dowager Countess
31- “I don’t dislike him. I just don’t like him. Which is quite different.” -Dowager Countess
32-“I know several couples who are perfectly happy. Haven’t spoken in years.” -Dowager Countess
33- “Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.” -Dowager Countess
34- “One way or another, every woman goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.” -Dowager Countess
35- “I am a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.” -Dowager Countess
36- “A woman of my age can face reality better than most men.” -Dowager Countess
37- “I do think a woman’s place is eventually in the home, but I see no harm in her having some fun before she gets there.” -Dowager Countess
38- “In my day, a lady was incapable of feeling physical attraction until she had been instructed to do so by her mama.” -Dowager Countess
The post Best 38 Dowager Countess Quotes – Downton Abbey appeared first on NSF - Music Magazine.