Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

Julian Fellowes

Stichwörter: cleverness downton-abbey violet-crawley



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She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.
I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.

Julian Fellowes

Stichwörter: poison



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We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.

Julian Fellowes


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Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

Julian Fellowes

Stichwörter: experience education



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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

Stichwörter: friendship friends



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As a rule the Holloywood pattern for English actors is simple. They are delighted to go, they are told there is a lot of work for them if they stick it out, they tell everyone how fabulous it is, they spend all their money - and then they come home. It seems to take from two to six years.

Julian Fellowes

Stichwörter: actors hollywood british



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Why do we spend so much of our lives making blameless people unhappy?

Julian Fellowes


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When young and clever men are angry, they either explode or achieve great things.

Julian Fellowes

Stichwörter: acheivement



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Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about a woman sitting next to him, about her feelings, about the life she is leading, she will generally tell him anything he cares to know.

Julian Fellowes

Stichwörter: men women



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Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done?

Julian Fellowes

Stichwörter: meaning-of-life



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