Top 250 Westminster Abbey Quotes & Sayings

I've never seen an episode of 'Downton Abbey.'

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.

At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn't matter: it was me, as a brother, doing a reading for my sister and her husband at their wedding, and I wanted to do it right.

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.

Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

My favorite album is 'Abbey Road.' I love 'Hey Jude.'

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.

In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.

The acting in Downton Abbey has been consistently excellent across the board.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

I've never seen an episode of Downton Abbey.

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

I think the first time I realised 'Downton Abbey' was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about 'Downton Abbey,' and then they recognised me.

The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.

It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.

Westminster has let the whole country down for many years.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

I could not write on 'Downton Abbey'.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show.

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.'

I dream of playing Lady Cora's sister on 'Downton Abbey.'

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet.

I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

When you look at Westminster you think of it as pale, male and stale and I hate that so much.

It is a truth universally unacknowledged at Westminster that there is life after politics.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

You're not gonna see me in 'Downton Abbey,' but culture is changing.

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as we're part of the Westminster system, it's really important to people in Scotland that we get good decisions coming out of Westminster. So we've got a vested interest in being a constructive participant.

At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.

I love 'Downton Abbey.'

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.