Maggie Smith credited as playing...
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [to Mrs. Crawley when they realize Mary will not take Matthew despite the fact that he remains the heir to the title and estate] Your quarrel is with my daughter, Rosamund, and not with me. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I know those men of the moral high ground - if she won't say yes when he might be poor, he won't want her when he *will* be rich.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I'm afraid your meddling has cost Mary the only decent offer she'll ever get.
- Lady Rosamund Painswick: I'm sorry, Mama, but you know me. I have to say what I think.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Why? Nobody else does.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Mary, listen to me. If you take Matthew now, when his whole future is at risk, he will love you to the end of his days.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: First, electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.