Julian Fellowes

“The price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.”

— Julian Fellowes

“corner of the Green Park and Piccadilly, Maria knew”

— Julian Fellowes

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

— Julian Fellowes

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

— Julian Fellowes

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

— Julian Fellowes

“She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.”

— Julian Fellowes

War makes early risers of us all.

— Julian Fellowes

“Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.”

— Julian Fellowes

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

— Julian Fellowes

Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

— Julian Fellowes

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

— Julian Fellowes

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

— Julian Fellowes

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

— Julian Fellowes

“Why do we spend so much of our lives making blameless people unhappy?”

— Julian Fellowes

“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”

— Julian Fellowes

“She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist. I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.”

— Julian Fellowes

There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the…

— Julian Fellowes

“It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or…

— Julian Fellowes

The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who…

— Julian Fellowes

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real…

— Julian Fellowes

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven…

— Julian Fellowes

What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which,…

— Julian Fellowes

“Mary: “Don’t be spiky, when I only want what you want – for you and Tony to walk into the sunset together.”…

— Julian Fellowes

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a…

— Julian Fellowes

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later…

— Julian Fellowes

“How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored…

— Julian Fellowes

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or…

— Julian Fellowes

I just don't believe in generalisations.

— Julian Fellowes

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

— Julian Fellowes

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

— Julian Fellowes

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

— Julian Fellowes

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

— Julian Fellowes

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

— Julian Fellowes

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

“The past, as we have been told so many times, is a foreign country where things are done differently.”

— Julian Fellowes

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

— Julian Fellowes

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

— Julian Fellowes