First electricity now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.

(Source: sundaywithoutdownton)

Violet Crawley, S1 (part 1)

” I know those men of the moral high ground. If she won’t say “yes” when he might be poor, he won’t want her when he will be rich.”

(Source: elledriver)

ladyofgondor:

peregrint:

HOW IS HE EVEN REAL.

IAN. LET ME LOVE YOU.

Sir Ian McKellen. Serena McKellen. (Say those names aloud one after the other.) Genius. 

(Source: withanaxe)

PERFECT HUMAN BEINGS ›› Helena Bonham Carter (in no particular order)

↳ “I have to struggle to change people’s perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I’m this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I’m absolutely not like that at all. I think I’m much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.”