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  • Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

    Men   Mad   Iconography  
    "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.
  • Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

    Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.441, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

    Sweet   Nice   Night  
  • The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

    School   Italian   Past  
    Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.102, Pan Macmillan
  • We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

    Music   Song   Years  
  • I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.

  • Before I went on stage at Kyle Hutton's Real Life Real Music Festival, I heard one of his songwriting students, Abbey Hirvela, sing; she was in the poet's saddle and riding that horse like she owned it. She was good! I probably ruined her by showing her how to make an E chord without the 3rd though.

    Horse   Real   Riding  
  • Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

    Drama   Television   Tvs  
  • You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

    Source: collider.com
  • The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

  • There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.

    Laughter   Men   House  
    Sir Max Beerbohm (1960). “And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland”
  • We were all expecting to finish [Downton Abbey] after Series 1, actually. And then, it got extended to Series 3, and that's when two of our much loved and much missed friends left. And then, it was going to be done with Series 5, but Julian Fellowes said, "I'd like to do one more." So it's been a series of extensions, rather than wondering how much longer we can go on for.

    Two   Done   Goes On  
    "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.
  • In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly

    Clothes   Abbey  
  • Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

  • In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

    Lying   Silence   Mind  
    "On Warren Hastings" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1841.
  • Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

    Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.377, Vintage
  • The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

  • One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

    Self   House   Brain  
    Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press
  • Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand and glared at Elle, who just grinned sheepishly and put up a couple of fingers. Carol tossed her head and waved her arm with gusto.

  • I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

    "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.
  • But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.

    Travel   Tired   Long  
    Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
  • I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

    Mother   Giving   Birth  
  • your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

    Doors   May   Roaming  
  • I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.

    Steam   Abbey  
  • Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

    Source: movieweb.com
  • I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

    Drama   Proud   Facts  
    "'Downton Abbey's Rob James-Collier On His Tragic Hero Thomas Barrow, Dancing With Dame Maggie Smith And Waiting For The Next Role". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. November 18, 2015.
  • What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

    Week   Maggie   Ends  
  • Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to “Christianize” ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.

    Holiday   Church   Sacred  
    Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.570, Dell
  • You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

    Couple   Keys   Ideas  
    "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.
  • I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.

    Food   Thinking   Self  
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