It turns out Carson from Downton Abbey is married to Imelda Staunton. You know, so maybe he and Umbridge and Maggie Smith get together and chat about Harry Potter sometimes.
I don’t understand why I get so excited about these things.
Violet: Oh, good Heavens, what am I sitting on?
Matthew: A-swivel chair.
Violet: Another modern brain wave?
Matthew: Not very modern. They were invented by Thomas Jefferson.
Violet: Why does everyday involve a fight with an American?
Matthew: I’ll fetch a different one.
Violet: No, no. I’m a good sailor.
Maggie Smith is one of the better things to have happened to this universe.
(Source: actuallymittromney)
First electricity and now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I was living in a H.G. Wells novel. —The Dowager Countess (via tomlet)
No Englishman would die in someone else’s house. —The Dowager Countess (via tomlet)
This can’t be right. I don’t think I know that many words.
