Greatest Quotes from the Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey

1 "Is this an instrument of communication or torture?"

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2 "Oh, that's an easy caveat to accept because I'm never wrong."

3 "All life is a series of problems which we must try and solve. First one, then the next, and the next…until at last, we die."

4 "No. If you wish to understand things, you must come out from behind your prejudice and listen."

5 "So, put that in your pipe and smoke it."

6 "She knows some of those feeble-minded idiots on the liberal front bench."

7 "I'm afraid Tom's small talk is very small indeed."

8 "Well, in my experience, second thoughts are vastly overrated."

9 "One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper."

10 "Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle class."

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11 "I don't dislike him. I just don't like him. Which is quite different."

12 "Oh, it is you. I thought it was a man wearing your clothes."

13 "And who are we to warrant any courtesy."

14 "He's as touchy as a beauty losing her looks."