Julian Fellowes

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

War makes early risers of us all.

I don't want my own son to die, but this is a war and we must be in it together. High and low. Rich and poor. There can be no special cases because every man at the front is a special case to someone.

Any bride who doesn't suck up to their husband's mother is a fool.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.