Julian Fellowes Quotes

She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood proves conclusively that it is not.

Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done?

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about a woman sitting next to him, about her feelings, about the life she is leading, she will generally tell him anything he cares to know.

It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.

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...

Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an investment in it, an investment of himself.