Top 151 Abbey Quotes & Sayings

In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly

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

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

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

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

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.'

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.'

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.

The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

?"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those changes.

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

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

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

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

I've never seen an episode of Downton Abbey.

I could not write on 'Downton Abbey'.

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

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.

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'

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

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'

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

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

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the night.

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't represent England, it's this postcard view.

My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.

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.

I love 'Downton Abbey.'

My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

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

Brits are cool at the moment. We've taken over the world, what with 'Game of Thrones', 'Downton Abbey', One Direction... to be British is to be fashionable.

People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.

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

I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the moments are.

I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.

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

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake

My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.

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.

I let steam off by watching 'Downton Abbey.'

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

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

'Humans' seems to have gone down really well in the U.S. That doesn't happen for British TV drama - unless we're talking 'Downton Abbey.'