178 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

Physical beauty is a subject that many skirt around and almost everyone attempts to down-play thereby demonstrating some sound moral stance, but it remains one of the glories of human existence. Of course, there are many people who are attractive without being beautiful just as there are beauties who bore, and the danger of beauty in the very young is that it can make the business of life seem deceptively easy.

If there’s one thing I don’t look for in a maid, it’s discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

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

You see, in America, it’s quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.