Julian Fellowes quotes

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit. (Julian Fellowes)
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. View quote
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When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. View quote
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Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them. View quote
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What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey. View quote
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The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' View quote
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I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. View quote
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To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. View quote
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Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous. View quote
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The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. View quote
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If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts. (Julian Fellowes)
I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it. View quote
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My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. View quote
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People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree. View quote
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War makes early risers of us all. View quote
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I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared. View quote
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What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area. View quote
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It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? View quote
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Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts. View quote
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You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all. View quote
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We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished. (Julian Fellowes)
One of the ironies in social climbing is that if you are successful, your children will ultimately belong to a different class from yours. There is something sad in that this was your ambition, yet if you achieve it, you have in a sense alienated yourself from your own children. View quote
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Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration. View quote
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I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? View quote
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I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. View quote
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