Julian Fellowes Quotes

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

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

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

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

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

I just don't believe in generalisations.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.

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

It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...