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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2023
  • 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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  • @udance4u
    @udance4u 8 месяцев назад +286

    I can never have enough of the Dowager Countess's hilarious, witty comments xD

  • @kristashafer93098
    @kristashafer93098 8 месяцев назад +407

    “Do you promise?” is *such* a solid burn!! Just 4 simple syllables, but SO savage!!!

    • @g0nt411
      @g0nt411 6 месяцев назад +11

      Amazing how she can be so barbaric and classy at the same time.

    • @kristashafer93098
      @kristashafer93098 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@g0nt411 Absolutely! Dame Maggie Smith is an incredible actress!!

    • @nemofan111
      @nemofan111 5 месяцев назад +4

      And then the look the Earl gave immediately after is sending me lol

    • @Matthew_Auchenbach
      @Matthew_Auchenbach 4 месяца назад

      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
      @Matthew_Auchenbach 4 месяца назад +1

      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.

  • @martinacarossino1486
    @martinacarossino1486 6 месяцев назад +64

    Isobel: ''I take that as a compliment.''
    Lady Violet: I must have said it wrong.''
    😂😂😂

  • @samalvey8168
    @samalvey8168 8 месяцев назад +195

    "Vulgarity is no substitute for wit."
    I couldn't agree more.

    • @Shane-Flanagan
      @Shane-Flanagan 8 месяцев назад +13

      Especially so when most people today rely on vulgarity in attempting to be witty

    • @bryaneberly3588
      @bryaneberly3588 7 месяцев назад +9

      she started it, though.

    • @horny4gnolls325
      @horny4gnolls325 6 месяцев назад +1

      Poop.

    • @12classics39
      @12classics39 5 месяцев назад +1

      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
      @bryaneberly3588 5 месяцев назад

      can we not continue the stupid cycle of generation bashing?@@12classics39

  • @jasonrealYT
    @jasonrealYT 8 месяцев назад +98

    "Rosamund, you are addressing your mother, not the Committee of Women's Institute." 😆😆😆

    • @linaung5394
      @linaung5394 7 месяцев назад +3

      if she wishes to be understood by a foreigner, she ___Shouts 🤣

    • @andrewjones-productions
      @andrewjones-productions 7 месяцев назад +6

      @@linaung5394 Typical Rosamund, she's never more righteous than when she's wrong.

  • @gizibi
    @gizibi 8 месяцев назад +70

    “And who are we to warrant any courtesy” lol

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. 8 месяцев назад +152

    “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
      @DeanMoxley87 8 месяцев назад +2

      some people recite them in 2023

  • @sandrataylor3723
    @sandrataylor3723 8 месяцев назад +221

    Love me some Maggie Smith. She is the only one who could have pulled off this character like she did.

    • @happycook6737
      @happycook6737 8 месяцев назад +5

      So true!

    • @TheBasher-_-
      @TheBasher-_- 8 месяцев назад +3

      Dame* Maggie Smith. Just saying lol.

    • @gailwebb9619
      @gailwebb9619 8 месяцев назад +5

      I do believe Julian Fellowes wrote the character just for her to play.

    • @StaffordMagnus
      @StaffordMagnus Месяц назад

      To be fair, I think her friend Dame Judi Dench could have done a pretty good job of it too.

  • @lost99sheep
    @lost99sheep 8 месяцев назад +46

    I don’t think nothing tops the “Do you promise?”

  • @Ruliuaneth21
    @Ruliuaneth21 5 месяцев назад +30

    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 😂😂😂

  • @graciegathua3172
    @graciegathua3172 3 месяца назад +14

    "ladling soup down the throats of some unfortunates"
    This line made me chuckle 😂

    • @dastrnad
      @dastrnad 26 дней назад

      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!

  • @comradeleppi2000
    @comradeleppi2000 2 месяца назад +11

    "isn't she American"
    "Exactly " 😂😂😂

  • @bozm9961
    @bozm9961 4 месяца назад +13

    "Why does everyday involve a fight with an American" hhahahahahaah I lost it.

  • @Myne1001
    @Myne1001 2 месяца назад +11

    "She could get to know New York"
    "I don't think things are quite that desperate"
    Literally something my late grandmother would say lol

  • @73005
    @73005 8 месяцев назад +58

    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
      @peachesandpoets 8 месяцев назад +7

      "no Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house" with a serious face got me 😂😂

    • @alonenjersey
      @alonenjersey 6 месяцев назад +5

      I threw my head back and laughed when I first heard & saw that scene.

  • @gumnaamaadmi007
    @gumnaamaadmi007 2 месяца назад +8

    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!

  • @baileyguan7457
    @baileyguan7457 6 месяцев назад +24

    The thing is, because of her wit, throughout the whole 6 series I could barely tell when she’s really angry or serious. 😂😂

  • @juanitaensign8100
    @juanitaensign8100 Месяц назад +4

    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😅

  • @winwarddale2779
    @winwarddale2779 8 месяцев назад +82

    I love her character so much. Maggie Smith is one of my Top Three most favorite actresses.

  • @MilotheShrike
    @MilotheShrike Месяц назад +5

    "For once I agree with cousin isobel" perfect just perfect

  • @raechelcleberg8854
    @raechelcleberg8854 Месяц назад +5

    "I can handle her", I love the Dowager's comeback to that!

  • @Edubarca46
    @Edubarca46 4 месяца назад +7

    This small video just shows once more why Downton Abbey is the BEST TV sweries EVER made.

  • @No1_ILoveLucyFan
    @No1_ILoveLucyFan 8 месяцев назад +73

    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
      @saramartinez103 7 месяцев назад +5

      Genius

    • @irinavolkova442
      @irinavolkova442 6 месяцев назад +1

      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
      @No1_ILoveLucyFan 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@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
      @eliza479 2 месяца назад +3

      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 😂

  • @peachesandpoets
    @peachesandpoets 8 месяцев назад +20

    "grow up in a garage with that drunken gorilla" 😂 😂 😂 😂

  • @janetfreeman2903
    @janetfreeman2903 8 месяцев назад +33

    The grandmother is hilarious. She was my favorite. I watch Downton Abbey every weekend.

  • @bezstarling8419
    @bezstarling8419 8 месяцев назад +34

    Oh I do love Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess. Could watch her for hours

    • @sheilacarey347
      @sheilacarey347 8 месяцев назад +6

      and I do....a few hours of Maggie Smith is the perfect antidepressant...absolutely perfect

  • @honeybee2587
    @honeybee2587 4 месяца назад +8

    "Why does every day involve a fight with an American."
    This made me crack up as someone from the state of Wisconsin. 😂😂

  • @djnoneofyourbusiness525
    @djnoneofyourbusiness525 7 месяцев назад +13

    “But you seem to have so many 😒 “
    She is the reason I watch this show lol

  • @gailwebb9619
    @gailwebb9619 8 месяцев назад +12

    “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!

  • @DarrenMalin
    @DarrenMalin 2 месяца назад +7

    She is a Gem

  • @MrJking065
    @MrJking065 8 месяцев назад +19

    The American zingers are so very funny. I have a feeling those barbs at Americans are said in real life also.💀💀💀💀😂😂😂😂💖💖💖💖

  • @odysseusrex5908
    @odysseusrex5908 6 месяцев назад +8

    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.

  • @g0nt411
    @g0nt411 6 месяцев назад +5

    "I am a good sailor" Definitely, I am stealing that one.

  • @josepholofinkua4819
    @josepholofinkua4819 7 месяцев назад +17

    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.

  • @teresaw9668
    @teresaw9668 2 месяца назад +5

    She's just so funny 🎉🎉😂😂❤❤❤

  • @oliviatucker1950
    @oliviatucker1950 8 месяцев назад +24

    I think her witticisms made me more than chuckle

  • @o.m9514
    @o.m9514 2 месяца назад +3

    She really said that she could "sail" the chair.🤣

  • @erinnkemp
    @erinnkemp 5 месяцев назад +7

    Best charactor ever😅❤❤

  • @meepmorp1150
    @meepmorp1150 8 месяцев назад +12

    They give her the best one liners 😂😂😂

  • @OzmaOfOzz
    @OzmaOfOzz 7 месяцев назад +8

    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 😂

  • @kimberlylewis2185
    @kimberlylewis2185 8 месяцев назад +18

    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.

  • @dannysimion
    @dannysimion 8 месяцев назад +10

    Hahaha - she has so many one liners that are hilarious. She's close to how Niles is on the Nanny.

  • @omercoeckelberghs2116
    @omercoeckelberghs2116 3 месяца назад +6

    8:31 a cat on the windowsill!!!...i think this is the one and only time a cat is seen in Downton Abbey.

  • @DeanMoxley87
    @DeanMoxley87 8 месяцев назад +10

    i love how she goes from Burning Alfred straight in to Tom

  • @hiddenangel7664
    @hiddenangel7664 8 месяцев назад +30

    Sassy granny ROCKED. 😎
    Everyone else SHOCKED. 🤯
    🔥💯💥🔥💯💥🔥💯💥🔥

  • @saramartinez103
    @saramartinez103 7 месяцев назад +5

    I will read a book with her lines forever. Such a genius character😅

  • @jordanhuegel6928
    @jordanhuegel6928 8 месяцев назад +12

    “…with that drunken gorilla” 😅

  • @rhondatraywick3724
    @rhondatraywick3724 8 месяцев назад +22

    Maggie Smith, what a treasure!

  • @saskiaramscar885
    @saskiaramscar885 8 месяцев назад +5

    the titles the most British thing I've ever seen 😂

  • @Rawwrrrrrrrrrrrr
    @Rawwrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 месяца назад +2

    5:52 BEST LINE EVERRRR AAAAAAA ICONIC

  • @Caroljeanbarnhart
    @Caroljeanbarnhart 7 месяцев назад +4

    She was one of the best parts of Downton!

  • @lauradarnall227
    @lauradarnall227 8 месяцев назад +12

    I love Maggie Smith...

  • @nathaliedufour3891
    @nathaliedufour3891 7 месяцев назад +5

    Still sad that Matthew Crawley died 😢Dan Stevens is a brilliant actor😊 ❤

  • @OceanHedgehog
    @OceanHedgehog 8 месяцев назад +7

    It's no wonder that Violet is the fan favorite!

  • @semigoth299
    @semigoth299 8 месяцев назад +8

    Dame Maggie Rocks

  • @MrSheckstr
    @MrSheckstr 8 месяцев назад +9

    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

  • @jeraldbaxter3532
    @jeraldbaxter3532 8 месяцев назад +3

    Dowager Lady Grantham, as portrayed by Dame Maggie Smith, one of my role models for sharp and devastating wit. Sadly, I am not worthy.

  • @Shaquille__Oatmeal_00
    @Shaquille__Oatmeal_00 4 месяца назад +3

    Servant: You'll be rewarded in heaven.
    Dowager: [ *In bed, ill.* ] The sooner the better. 😷😷

    • @jessicasager72
      @jessicasager72 28 дней назад

      It was the doctor, not a servant, but that's an easy mistake because there are so many of them.

  • @dianalee8967
    @dianalee8967 5 месяцев назад +1

    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.❤

  • @mushroomhead3619
    @mushroomhead3619 4 месяца назад +2

    Lol Professor McGonagall

  • @maxaranguiz-peterson2323
    @maxaranguiz-peterson2323 4 месяца назад +2

    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!

  • @NSankeerthUrkec
    @NSankeerthUrkec 5 месяцев назад +2

    I'm a Good Sailor 😂

  • @colindasilva2442
    @colindasilva2442 5 месяцев назад +2

    I was born to be the Dowager lol

  • @wilwaren8571
    @wilwaren8571 8 месяцев назад +19

    so put that in your pipe and smoke it '' 😂🤣🤣🤣

    • @saulio123
      @saulio123 8 месяцев назад +3

      Carson's expression after 🤣

  • @mygrammieis
    @mygrammieis 7 месяцев назад +3

    💯🧐Awesome

  • @hpavalferr7201
    @hpavalferr7201 8 месяцев назад +6

    💯 👏🏻

  • @tatianasavushkina6114
    @tatianasavushkina6114 7 месяцев назад +2

    Lady Violet is the best ❤

  • @mydearvalerie
    @mydearvalerie Месяц назад +2

    Whom I aspire to become...

  • @stevelukoski7152
    @stevelukoski7152 6 месяцев назад +2

    I always thought julian had a sense of humor . Seems i was correct ! 🙂

  • @andrewe360
    @andrewe360 8 месяцев назад +3

    mad funny

  • @puppylove422
    @puppylove422 8 месяцев назад +1

    Go, Maggggge.

  • @believewhatyousee2852
    @believewhatyousee2852 8 месяцев назад +5

    😂😂❤

  • @user-zh5pm3rz9f
    @user-zh5pm3rz9f 4 месяца назад

  • @GloriaJWimberley
    @GloriaJWimberley 8 месяцев назад +1

    ✨👏✨

  • @samuelbourne3201
    @samuelbourne3201 8 месяцев назад +2

    Post the scene where Bates tells Anna he didn't kill Mr Green

  • @puffeiffer
    @puffeiffer Месяц назад

    8:34 There’s a cat on the window sill. I don’t recall the Dowager owning any house pets.

  • @ryanfisher4213
    @ryanfisher4213 2 месяца назад +1

    At 8’32 - there’s a cat?

  • @MGJ182
    @MGJ182 Месяц назад +1

    7:29 what exactly does the Countess mean here?

  • @EttiHudson
    @EttiHudson Месяц назад +1

    How the scripts set to gaslight just as the golden girls by Paul Yunger
    China Trivium called me Polk.

  • @PedroAugusto_mr
    @PedroAugusto_mr 8 месяцев назад +5

    Please: SUBTITLES.

  • @chasegordonn
    @chasegordonn 4 месяца назад +1

    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
      @Umbris13 4 месяца назад +2

      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.

  • @jws1948ja
    @jws1948ja 5 месяцев назад +1

    snips abd pieces.

  • @viktoriyarts
    @viktoriyarts 8 месяцев назад +3

    >>> watched the show because of her button

  • @michaelplunkett8059
    @michaelplunkett8059 6 месяцев назад +2

    Oh, to sit with Agatha Christie and watch this...

  • @bcnmanhattan5022
    @bcnmanhattan5022 8 месяцев назад +2

    the old tyrant

  • @htownjesse
    @htownjesse Месяц назад +1

    I've noticed you keep leaving off Mrs Levinson's comebacks. No fair. She absolutely demolished the Dowsger several times. Tsk, tsk.

  • @Chris-hv2mu
    @Chris-hv2mu 7 месяцев назад +1

    she knows her kind do not possess any logic

  • @mackib430
    @mackib430 8 месяцев назад +3

    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
      @Inferno-Dante 7 месяцев назад +4

      You just don’t get her.

    • @mackib430
      @mackib430 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@Inferno-Dante what is there to get ? An entitled nasty bitter personality……

    • @jumpingdinosaur
      @jumpingdinosaur 2 месяца назад

      ​@@Inferno-Danteyou can't deny she is nasty at times

    • @BBlair-if8tj
      @BBlair-if8tj 2 месяца назад

      @@jumpingdinosaurEssential protection strategy.

  • @itsthepens
    @itsthepens 24 дня назад

    ‘Royalty level’? Who is writing these video titles, a teenager? Downton deserves better…

  • @paulroberts3669
    @paulroberts3669 2 месяца назад +1

    No Englishmsn would Dream of dying in somebody elses house

  • @marinameilenstein
    @marinameilenstein 5 месяцев назад +1

    2:07 find someone who looks at you the way Mrs Crawley does at Ethel 🥹