Dowager countess

Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle-class.

The best Downton Abbey movie quotes from the Dowager Countess of Grantham aka Violet Crawley. "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit."

You're probably still reeling from Downton Abbey 's Season 5 finale, so you're going to want to sit down for the next bout of Grantham news. Maggie Smith is leaving Downton Abbey after Season 6, which means we only have one more season of her…

Her legacy lives on.

"A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears"

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (b. 1842[1] - 1928), was the matriarch of the Crawley Family by her marriage to the late Earl of Grantham and a relative of the MacClare Family via her niece and goddaughter, Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire. She is the mother of Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham, and of Lady Rosamund Painswick, and the grandmother of Robert and his wife Cora's three daughters: Mary, Edith, and Sybil. Through her granddaughters she has five…

...Dame Maggie Even Does Her Own Makeup...Talk About A Great, Great Actress...You're Looking At Her!!

Sadly, Dame Maggie Smith died at the age of 89 this year, several years after the post was originally written. We're leaving it in place to honour her long

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (b. 1842[1] - 1928), was the matriarch of the Crawley Family by her marriage to the late Earl of Grantham and a relative of the MacClare Family via her niece and goddaughter, Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire. She is the mother of Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham, and of Lady Rosamund Painswick, and the grandmother of Robert and his wife Cora's three daughters: Mary, Edith, and Sybil. Through her granddaughters she has five…