178 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don’t agree.

Things were just as they had been a moment before, and yet somehow the tone and substance had changed.

As a rule the Holloywood pattern for English actors is simple. They are delighted to go, they are told there is a lot of work for them if they stick it out, they tell everyone how fabulous it is, they spend all their money – and then they come home. It seems to take from two to six years.

I think every period – except for the 14th century, or something – has some merits.

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.

You must decide whether you wish to get on with your children or live at war with them.

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

Most of us don’t want to be outsiders.

I’m seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don’t think is unfair.