Half Quote by Jessica Fellowes

Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.

— Jessica Fellowes

“I am leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we will meet again.” Sir Richard “Do you promise?” Dowager Countess Violet”

— Dowager Countess Violet Grantham

“The storyteller gave me a sideways look. "Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They…

— Diane Setterfield

“The windows give a panoramic view of an outside world that Violet is becoming the least bit interested in. Violet detaches herself from the…

— Suzka Collins

“As I closed the door I caught a last glimpse of her through the round window, still sitting straight-backed and motionless with her hands…

— Tana French

“Once upon a time there was an empress, trapped as a ghost in the ruins of a jewelled palace, cursed to find another soul…

— Kirsty Logan

“It's all about her. Every movement, every breath, the way my heart beats firecely inside my chest, is all because of her. Violet owns…

— Jessica Sorensen

“The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Aunt Hilda,’ Violet”

— Laurel Remington

“Aunt Agatha's demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“For the widow inhabits a tale not of her own telling.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“She inched forward, although she wasn't sure why. If the dowager started spouting off about the highwayman and his resemblance to her favorite son,…

— Julia Quinn