Dowager Countess Quote by Dowager Countess Violet Grantham

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

— Jessica Fellowes

“Good morning, Lord Vickery," she [Lady Elizabeth Scarlet] said. „The early fortune hunter catches the heiress, eh?”

— Nicola Cornick

“She could Captain to his Your Majesty any time.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

“What are you doing here, Goodfellow? "Rescuing the princess from the winter court, of course. Though it appears I'm saving your sorry-ass as well."…

— Julie Kagawa

“She regards me quietly and then she quotes something Mistress Coyle once said to me. “We are the choices we make.” It takes me…

— Patrick Ness

“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,…

— Anna Quindlen

“Have you stopped the trial?” the duchess said. “Stopped the trial!” he expostulated. “My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to…

— Judith McNaught

“Sir William had only stayed in our company for two nights before leaving during a spectacularly blustery storm. As I watched him leave I…

— M.L LeGette

“Mr. St. Maur will help me make a most excellent match. Perhaps you should retain him as well." Minerva shook her head at the…

— Elizabeth Boyle

“Your revile me!" Diana spat. "I will expect your call with a full explanation at nine o'clock on the morrow." "An ungodly hour," he…

— Victoria Vane

“I am a lady-in-waiting, and she is the princess. No, the empress. The empress of the world.”

— Sara Ryan