Maggie Smith movie quotes

“There's no such thing as an ending; just a place where you leave the story.”
Maggie Smith - Muriel Donnelly

“When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.”
Maggie Smith

“Often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.”
Maggie Smith

“There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.”
Maggie Smith

“No guest should be admitted without the date of their departure settled.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“It always seemed rather dark, when my mother-in-law lived here. But then, she made everything rather dark.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“No life appears rewarding if you think too much about it.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“What simpletons men are.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Never complain, never explain.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“I’m a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“I agree – hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else’s house.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Life is a game, where the player must appear ridiculous.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“An aristocrat with no servants is as much use to the country as a glass hammer.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“There comes a time when things are best left to the professionals.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“In my day, a lady was incapable of feeling physical attraction until she had been instructed to do so by her mama.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“The heart does not exist solely for the purpose to pump blood.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Every woman goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“A woman of my age can face reality better than most men.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“I know several couples who are perfectly happy. Haven’t spoken in years.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Royal women are not meant to grin like Cheshire cats.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“The point is, I'll be fine until I'm not. That's all that is to it.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley