She’s the countess with countless caustic comments.
Maggie Smith, who plays Lady Grantham, The Dowager Countess, and her sharp wit and biting humor return to the “Downton Abbey” fifth season, which starts in the Roaring Twenties.
The pinched-lipped pushy grande dame whips out the one-liners with aristocratic vim and vigor.
Some classics:
- “What is a weekend?”
- “I’m never wrong.”
- “It’s the job of grandmothers to interfere.”
- “Don’t be defeatist dear, it’s very middle class.”
- Then, of course, her take on the telephone:
- “Is this an instrument of communication or torture?”
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