Abbey Quote by Karina Longworth

The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective…

— Steve Coogan

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts…

— Richard Steele

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

— Michael Winter

It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two…

— Eric Weiner

“Erotica is not just words written as sex scenes.”

— Alyssa Edge

You're not gonna see me in 'Downton Abbey,' but culture is changing.

— Ashley Walters

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic…

— Roger Scruton

'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking…

— Michelle Dockery

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in…

— John Tyler

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

— Mark Rylance