Dowager countess

The best Downton Abbey movie quotes from the Dowager Countess of Grantham aka Violet Crawley. "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit."

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

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Episode 3.01Violet, speaking to Cora and Matthew about Martha Levinson. Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (b. 1842[1] - 1928), was the matriarch of the Crawley Family by her marriage to the late Earl of Grantham and a relative of the MacClare Family via her niece and goddaughter, Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire. She is the mother of Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham, and of Lady Rosamund Painswick, and the grandmother of Robert and his wife Cora's three daughters…

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A collection of the Dowager Countess's most memorable one liners.

The best Downton Abbey movie quotes from the Dowager Countess of Grantham aka Violet Crawley. "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit."

Well, we can't have him assassinated... I suppose.

Her legacy lives on.