Downton Abbey Lady Grantham Quotes & Sayings

He looks like a man.'
'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist. — Julia Quinn

Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping. — Stef Penney

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties. — Murray Gell-Mann

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache. — Rumi

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. — Henry Beston

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. — Winston Churchill

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication ... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done. — Peter Drucker

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce. — Ernest Holmes

The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything. — J.A. Redmerski

A body will accelerate in proportion to the force acting upon it, — Jerome Pohlen

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that. — Peter Diamandis

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice was smooth and kind, and once in a while an observation that would ring so true it vibrated like flicked crystal. — Lauren Groff

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty. — Will McDonough

Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit." "Perhaps — Bram Stoker