Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [drolly, after a dinner guest gets food spilled on her and the butler suffers an apparent heart attack, to another guest] You'll find there's never a dull moment ...

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [on telephone] Yes. Yes. The Minister. Well, how many Marquesses of Flintshire are there? Is this an instrument of communication or torture? Hello? Shrimpie? It's ...

we'd better get her settled before the bloom has gone quite off the rose. Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a ...