Ellie Walker-Arnott
10:50 AM, 14 October 2012
Quick tongued Violet Crawley - played by the Emmy award-winning Maggie Smith - has had us in stitches with her clever quips and put-downs since series one.
Here are a few of our favourite Maggie moments...
Remember back in series one when Violet met Cousin Isobel? They almost get on nowadays, but relations were a lot pricklier at first. When a friendly Isobel reaches out to the Dowager Countess, her response was rather cold...
ISOBEL CRAWLEY "What should we call each other?"
DOWAGER COUNTESS "Well we could always start with Mrs Crawley and Lady Grantham..."
Pre-marital sex and covering up a death all in one night? Oh Mary, it'd never have happened with a nice English boy...
DOWAGER COUNTESS “Oh my dears, is it really true? I can’t believe it. Last night he looked so well. Of course, it would happen to a foreigner... It’s typical!”
MARY “Don’t be ridiculous.”
DOWAGER COUNTESS “I’m not being ridiculous. No English man would dream of dying in someone else’s house. Especially someone they didn’t even know.”
A comedy gem from series three here. When, in a hilarious plot twist, ALL the Earl's formal shirts go missing from his room and, horror of horrors, he has to wear an inappropriately informal shirt under his dinner jacket, Martha Levinson says he looks as though he is "dressed for a BBQ", but Violet goes one better, 'mistaking' him for one of the staff...
DOWAGER COUNTESS “Oh do you think I might have a drink?”
[turns to Earl of Grantham] Oh I’m so sorry, I thought you were a waiter…”
READ MORE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-10-14/downton-abbey-maggie-smiths-best-one-liners
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