Quotes from Julian Fellowes

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

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.'

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.

The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

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

The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.

I'm not romantic. But I shall think that the heart has other uses, rather than just pumping blood.

I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.

The price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.

I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort

Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.

Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.

How little Americans know when they disparage acquaintanceship in favour of real, true friendship. It is in acquaintanceship, bringing wiht it as it does delicious dinners, comfortable weekends, gossip shared in picturesque surroundings, but no real intimacy, no responsibility, that the greatest charm of social intercourse lies.

Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor!