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Twelve Times The Dowager Countess Brought The Verbal Smackdown

Get your Dowager fix, Downton Abbey fans.

Mel Bailey
Created by Mel Bailey
On Dec 3, 2015
1

When she burns the idea of the virginal Victorian bride TO THE GROUND!

"One way or another, every woman goes down the aisle with half the story hidden."

2

When Matthew brought up a completely unfamiliar term.

Saturdays are just another day to hurl the surl for the Dowager Countess.

3

When she told Lady Mary what is what.

"I am a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose."

4

When she shut Lady Sybil's smart mouth with one sentence.

"Sybil dear, vulgarity is no substitute for wit."

5

When she properly placed the blame for Grantham Manor's greatest scandal.

"Of course it would happen to a foreigner. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house."

6

When she let all you fools know what she really thinks of you.

"There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test."

7

When she simultaneously dissed electricity and Irish theatre.

"Oh dear! Such a GLARE! I feel as though I were on stage at The Gaiety."

8

When Mrs. Crawley fell against her rapier wit.

Mrs. Crawley: "I take that as a compliment."
Dowager: "I must've said it wrong."

9

When she gave Alexander Graham Bell what for.

Ladies have no use for your vulgar wires, Phone Boy!

10

When she perfectly described the differences between the classes.

"Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class."

11

When she surgically picked apart her own kind.

"If I were to ever search for logic I wouldn't look for it among the English upper class."

12

When Mosley forgot himself.

"If only he would *stay* inside."

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