The Dowager Countess' Royalty Level Witticisms That'll Make You Chuckle | Downton Abbey
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Indulge in the refined humor and razor-sharp wit of the Dowager Countess (portrayed by Maggie Smith) in this delightful compilation of witticisms from the beloved Downton Abbey. Immerse yourself in the high society banter and clever retorts that epitomize the grace and sophistication of the aristocratic Crawley family. From sassy comebacks to brilliantly delivered one-liners, this video will transport you to the world of early 20th-century British aristocracy, leaving you in fits of laughter.
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The costume drama series, Downton Abbey, written and created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes, stars Academy Award-winner Maggie Smith as a Dowager Countess of an Edwardian English country house in 1912. The series portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them, in a time before the last vestige of a century’s old tradition were stripped away by World War and the modern age. The all-star cast also includes Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern.
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I can never have enough of the Dowager Countess's hilarious, witty comments xD
@alannalancaster3659
10 ай бұрын
Thats why I cant stop watching DA for the 15th time
@mushroomhead3619
5 ай бұрын
She’s in Harry Potter too!
“Do you promise?” is *such* a solid burn!! Just 4 simple syllables, but SO savage!!!
@g0nt411
8 ай бұрын
Amazing how she can be so barbaric and classy at the same time.
@kristashafer93098
8 ай бұрын
@@g0nt411 Absolutely! Dame Maggie Smith is an incredible actress!!
@nemofan111
7 ай бұрын
And then the look the Earl gave immediately after is sending me lol
@Matthew_Auchenbach
6 ай бұрын
I wish to concur in everything you said except in the misnomination of verbage relating to the excerpt, "4 simple syllables." I believe for the sake of better English you were trying to convey the thought more accurately was "words" not "syllables." Please don't be angry "but there comes a time when things are best left to the professionals" - Maggie Smith, Dowager Countess, Downton Abbey.
@Matthew_Auchenbach
6 ай бұрын
I will add Dame Maggie Smith has been a childhood favorite of mine. That early 20th century sass and witty repartee is an accreddit to her acting skill.
Isobel: ''I take that as a compliment.'' Lady Violet: I must have said it wrong.'' 😂😂😂
"isn't she American" "Exactly " 😂😂😂
“And who are we to warrant any courtesy” lol
@caroleappling2007
9 ай бұрын
Yes, this is the line.🔥
"Rosamund, you are addressing your mother, not the Committee of Women's Institute." 😆😆😆
@linaung5394
8 ай бұрын
if she wishes to be understood by a foreigner, she ___Shouts 🤣
@andrewjones-productions
8 ай бұрын
@@linaung5394 Typical Rosamund, she's never more righteous than when she's wrong.
I don’t think nothing tops the “Do you promise?”
“There’s never a dull moment in this house.” I live for the fact that I remember her lines because they’re all fabulous 🔥
@DeanMoxley87
10 ай бұрын
some people recite them in 2023
"Why does everyday involve a fight with an American" hhahahahahaah I lost it.
Love me some Maggie Smith. She is the only one who could have pulled off this character like she did.
@happycook6737
10 ай бұрын
So true!
@TheBasher-_-
9 ай бұрын
Dame* Maggie Smith. Just saying lol.
@gailwebb9619
9 ай бұрын
I do believe Julian Fellowes wrote the character just for her to play.
@StaffordMagnus
2 ай бұрын
To be fair, I think her friend Dame Judi Dench could have done a pretty good job of it too.
I was howling when she asked Lord Grantham on why he talks of her as if she were a salmon. It caught me off guard, and I love it so much 😂😂😂
"She could get to know New York" "I don't think things are quite that desperate" Literally something my late grandmother would say lol
"ladling soup down the throats of some unfortunates" This line made me chuckle 😂
@dastrnad
2 ай бұрын
Haha! I don’t know how missed that line the first few times I watched the series. She has so many it’s hard to keep up!
This small video just shows once more why Downton Abbey is the BEST TV sweries EVER made.
"For once I agree with cousin isobel" perfect just perfect
"Vulgarity is no substitute for wit." I couldn't agree more.
@Shane-Flanagan
9 ай бұрын
Especially so when most people today rely on vulgarity in attempting to be witty
@bryaneberly3588
9 ай бұрын
she started it, though.
@horny4gnolls325
7 ай бұрын
Poop.
@12classics39
6 ай бұрын
That should be taught in schools today. It’s a truth completely forgotten by most of Gen Z. (I say this as a member of Gen Z.)
@bryaneberly3588
6 ай бұрын
can we not continue the stupid cycle of generation bashing?@@12classics39
The thing is, because of her wit, throughout the whole 6 series I could barely tell when she’s really angry or serious. 😂😂
The casting of Shirley Maclaine was such a masterstroke. Maggie Smith is a legend unto herself, and Shirley was so good in the scenes they had together. I just realised that they are of the same age in real life too!
"I can handle her", I love the Dowager's comeback to that!
I love her character so much. Maggie Smith is one of my Top Three most favorite actresses.
@barbaranoel3186
10 ай бұрын
When is it coming back on
I don’t know how you kept a straight face with some of those lines!! “You’ll never see me again! Do you promise???!!!”😅
@peachesandpoets
9 ай бұрын
"no Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house" with a serious face got me 😂😂
@alonenjersey
7 ай бұрын
I threw my head back and laughed when I first heard & saw that scene.
"Why does every day involve a fight with an American." This made me crack up as someone from the state of Wisconsin. 😂😂
I adore the Dowager -- sure hope to see Julian Fellowes consider a prequel series to Downton Abbey featuring a young Dowager, Lord Grantham, Prince Kuragin as well as showing us how Robert and Cora met and fell in love!!
@saramartinez103
8 ай бұрын
Genius
@irinavolkova442
7 ай бұрын
An awesome idea! But please, please, leave out Prince Kuragin! The prequel would be much better without this zany character and his fake Russian accent :)
@No1_ILoveLucyFan
7 ай бұрын
@@irinavolkova442 LOL! It wasn't the smoothest sounding accent, that is true -- but I really would love to see the Dowager in a torrid situation of being in love and engaged to her husband, but being drawn towards Kuragin.
@eliza479
3 ай бұрын
Who would play the young Lady Violet though? There's no one I can think of who'd do justice to the role - other than a young Maggie Smith... Suggestions 😂
The grandmother is hilarious. She was my favorite. I watch Downton Abbey every weekend.
"grow up in a garage with that drunken gorilla" 😂 😂 😂 😂
Dame Maggie Smith is a true treasure. The English are fortunate to have her, and the rest of us are fortunate that they share her with us.
Oh I do love Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess. Could watch her for hours
@sheilacarey347
10 ай бұрын
and I do....a few hours of Maggie Smith is the perfect antidepressant...absolutely perfect
“But you seem to have so many 😒 “ She is the reason I watch this show lol
She is without a doubt the best she makes the show!!!!! MY FAVORITE SAYING OF HERS IS weekend....... what is a weekend brilliant question must be tough to be that rich lol😅
Maggie Smith is the English grandma I wish to have. Loved her when I set my eyes on her in Sisters Act. 😁 English culture at its best.
She is a Gem
“Do you promise” is my very favorite saying from Violet….she says it with a punch and I can see both Mary and Robert holding in the laughter!
The American zingers are so very funny. I have a feeling those barbs at Americans are said in real life also.💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂💖💖💖💖
"I am a good sailor" Definitely, I am stealing that one.
She really said that she could "sail" the chair.🤣
She's just so funny 🎉🎉😂😂❤❤❤
I think her witticisms made me more than chuckle
Still waiting for someone to say they're leaving and not coming back so I can go full on Dowager Countess on them 😂 "Do you promise?" Savage 😂
Best charactor ever😅❤❤
I loved loved loved The Dowager! Her mannerisms and quick wit were always on point. Some of the funniest scenes are between her and Isabel. Truthfully, I don't know how the rest of the cast kept their composure. Mrs. Hughes was funny too, I would like to see someone put together a video of her funny, shady, moments with Mr. Carson, Mrs. Patmore, Barrow, and Miss O'Brien.
Hahaha - she has so many one liners that are hilarious. She's close to how Niles is on the Nanny.
They give her the best one liners 😂😂😂
Sassy granny ROCKED. 😎 Everyone else SHOCKED. 🤯 🔥💯💥🔥💯💥🔥💯💥🔥
i love how she goes from Burning Alfred straight in to Tom
I will read a book with her lines forever. Such a genius character😅
8:31 a cat on the windowsill!!!...i think this is the one and only time a cat is seen in Downton Abbey.
@callmeswivelhips8229
Ай бұрын
Oh my gosh, I spotted it too!! KITTY!!!!!
“…with that drunken gorilla” 😅
Maggie Smith, what a treasure!
the titles the most British thing I've ever seen 😂
She was one of the best parts of Downton!
5:52 BEST LINE EVERRRR AAAAAAA ICONIC
Still sad that Matthew Crawley died 😢Dan Stevens is a brilliant actor😊 ❤
I love Maggie Smith...
Lol Professor McGonagall
Servant: You'll be rewarded in heaven. Dowager: [ *In bed, ill.* ] The sooner the better. 😷😷
@jessicasager72
2 ай бұрын
It was the doctor, not a servant, but that's an easy mistake because there are so many of them.
It's no wonder that Violet is the fan favorite!
I was born to be the Dowager lol
I'm a Good Sailor 😂
Its a shame no one has made a 1980s style post credit compilation of bloopers snd outtakes…. Case in point in the Swivel chair scene , Allen Leech is clearly hiding a laugh
Dame Maggie Rocks
Dowager Lady Grantham, as portrayed by Dame Maggie Smith, one of my role models for sharp and devastating wit. Sadly, I am not worthy.
Whom I aspire to become...
I could listen to her all day she's my agent and I admire her spunk and this series of movies I wish there was more but if she's getting on like I am she doesn't feel like doing more I hardly feel like going from the living room to the kitchen LOL I'll be 90 in May2024 I hope she's doing well.❤
Maggie or the Dowager Countess's the best that England has produced. Afine lady and actor with a great accolade of work produced in her lifetime. Long Live the Dowager Countess!
so put that in your pipe and smoke it '' 😂🤣🤣🤣
@saulio123
9 ай бұрын
Carson's expression after 🤣
Julian Fellowes, please write a prequel of Violet as a young Countess of Grantham
💯🧐Awesome
💯 👏🏻
I always thought julian had a sense of humor . Seems i was correct ! 🙂
mad funny
Lady Violet is the best ❤
😂😂❤
Go, Maggggge.
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❤
Post the scene where Bates tells Anna he didn't kill Mr Green
8:34 There’s a cat on the window sill. I don’t recall the Dowager owning any house pets.
7:29 what exactly does the Countess mean here?
At 8’32 - there’s a cat?
Please: SUBTITLES.
>>> watched the show because of her button
snips abd pieces.
How the scripts set to gaslight just as the golden girls by Paul Yunger China Trivium called me Polk.
I've noticed you keep leaving off Mrs Levinson's comebacks. No fair. She absolutely demolished the Dowsger several times. Tsk, tsk.
Oh, to sit with Agatha Christie and watch this...
the old tyrant
she knows her kind do not possess any logic
I loved this character,,, but no matter how many times I watch the series I can’t abide the character Mary,, such a bitter nasty and entitled character….
@Inferno-Dante
9 ай бұрын
You just don’t get her.
@mackib430
9 ай бұрын
@@Inferno-Dante what is there to get ? An entitled nasty bitter personality……
@jumpingdinosaur
4 ай бұрын
@@Inferno-Danteyou can't deny she is nasty at times
@BBlair-if8tj
3 ай бұрын
@@jumpingdinosaurEssential protection strategy.
‘Royalty level’? Who is writing these video titles, a teenager? Downton deserves better…
No Englishmsn would Dream of dying in somebody elses house
Would someone be so kind as to tell me what Ms. Maggie is saying at 2:25? It's not a word you often hear among the ____? Thanks and blessings in advance!
@Umbris13
5 ай бұрын
Heather, which is a flowering shrub commonly found in Scotland; here, the implication is that it's not the kind of language expected of the Scottish aristocracy.
2:07 find someone who looks at you the way Mrs Crawley does at Ethel 🥹