Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.
Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.
Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront. . . She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary
Matthew: Shall I remind you of some of the choicest remarks you made about me when I arrived here? Because they live in my memory as fresh as the day they were spoken. Mary: Oh, Matthew. What am I always telling you? You must pay no attention to the things I say. When they kiss, it is a long kiss, all the more passionate for being delayed far longer than it should have been.
Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
I want to be in the studio. I want to be doing something. You just do whatever is at hand, and you don't even worry about whether it's going to be interesting or not interesting to anybody else-or even yourself. You just have to make something.
But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.