Julian Fellowes Quotes

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.

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

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.