Lady Danbury Quotes

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Lady Danbury: There is some anxiety amongst the mamas that you have not yet selected a diamond.

Queen Charlotte: A diamond is precious precisely because it is rare. I throw one diamond ball, and anxious mamas expect a diamond every year. I threw a zebra ball once. Do they expect a new zebra each year?

Queen Charlotte: This is not the life I wished for.

Lady Danbury: We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive we have desires, dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery. Our force of will will be their proof.

Lady Danbury (to her son): You are Lord Danbury. And you will take your rightful place because you are entitled to it. And because you are my son. You are the son of Agatha Danbury, born name Soma, Royal Blood of the Kpa-Mende Bo tribe in Sierra Leone. You come from warriors. We win. Never forget that.

Lady Danbury (to Violet): What do we know of one another? Really know beyond pedigrees and widowhood? What do any of the women of the ton know of true friendship? It is all social chatter, marital schemes, and gossip. You opened yourself up to show me who you are. That was brave. We mothers and aunts and leaders of the ton, we spend our time endlessly matchmaking, talking of wooing. Of love. Of romance. But never for anyone mature enough to truly understand what any of it means. What it is to go without it. What it is to lose it. We are full of gossip and story, but as women, we are never the topics of the conversation. Lady Whistledown never writes of our hearts. We are untold stories. Yesterday, you told me something of your story. And I... thank you.

Lady Danbury: Coral, you need not draw baths as often.

Coral: Nonsense, my lady. It is simple now we have a full staff. Today, I've even had the new housemaid press lavender oil.

Lady Danbury: Coral! You need not draw baths as often.

Coral: My Lady. We are... We are done?

Lady Danbury: We are done.

Lady Danbury: You are the queen. And this feels beneath you, but if you were not the queen...

Queen Charlotte: But I am.

Lady Danbury: But if you were not... your life here would be very different. Do you not understand? You are the first of your kind. That opened doors, so we are new. Do you not see us? What you are meant to do for us? I tell you to consummate. I tell you to become with child. I tell you to endure. For a reason. You're so preoccupied with whether a man likes you. You're not some simpering girl. You are our queen. Your focus should be your country. Your people. Our side. Why do you not understand that you hold our fates in your hands? Your palace walls are too high, Your Majesty.

Violet Bridgerton: It is my husband's birthday today. Was. Would be. Would have been. Edmund's birthday would've been today. I'm so sorry.

Lady Danbury: Why are you sorry?

Violet Bridgerton: He liked his birthday. He liked to celebrate, and I would make him hats. Out of paper. The kind of hats that had been made for me when I was a child. My father made me these birthday hats, and no one had ever done that for him, so I did it. I gave him childish birthdays, and... they made him so happy. I constructed these... oh, elaborate, wonderful hats, and he would wear them the entire day. He looked ridiculous in them. And we would laugh... I do not like today. It reminds me that there are no hats to make.

Lady Danbury: You are most fortunate.

Violet Bridgerton: Fortunate?

Lady Danbury: Yes.

Violet Bridgerton: I fear I must have misheard you. I am... I am fortunate?

Lady Danbury: You may not like today. But trust me. You are most fortunate.

Princess Augusta: You surprise me. I always thought you were a quiet one.

Lady Danbury: I am not quiet. It is simply that my husband is loud.

(Lady Danbury sees Charlotte for the first time...)

Lady Danbury: The pieces fall into place.

Lord Danbury: Uh, what?

Lady Danbury: Shh. I said she looks beautiful, husband.

Lady Danbury (to Kate): Very few attempt to outwit me, and even fewer succeed.

Kate Sharma: What is clear is we are woefully unprepared to navigate this lion's den. I am sure Edwina's absence will only make her that much more desirable.

Edwina Sharma: It truly was a magnificent soiree, Lady Danbury. We are most grateful.

(Kate and Edwina leave)

Violet Bridgerton: Well, it would seem both of us may have our hands full this year.

Lady Danbury: Not if I have something to say about it. And as you very well know, I always have something to say.

Queen Charlotte: I hear you have made quite a journey to join us again after all these years, Lady Mary. If only you had extended the courtesy of offering your queen a final farewell before you left.

Lady Danbury (to Mary): Oh, I do relish a challenge.

Lady Danbury (to Simon): Pride, Your Grace... it will cost you everything and leave you with nothing. You must not allow it to happen to you too.

Lady Danbury: I understand that you believe such subjects as love and devotion, affection and attachment, you find it all trite and frivolous. But have you any idea those very things are precisely what have allowed a new day to begin to dawn in this society? Look at our queen. Look at our king. Look at their marriage. Look at everything it is doing for us, allowing us to become. We were two separate societies, divided by color, until a king fell in love with one of us. Love, Your Grace... conquers all.

Simon Basset: I believe that remains to be seen. The king may have chosen his queen. He may have elevated us from novelties in their eyes to now dukes and royalty, and at that same whim... he may just as easily change his mind, a mind, as we all know, that is hanging on by one very loose and tenuous thread. So, no, I am sorry, Lady Danbury, we are in disagreement here. Love changes nothing.

Lady Danbury is a character from Bridgerton

Bridgerton Quotes

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You can also find Lady Danbury in the series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.

 

Lady Danbury, full name Agatha Danbury, was a wife to Lord Danbury. She is more known as a widowed countess, who is a close family friend to Violet Bridgerton and her family, and also friend to Queen Charlotte.

 

Lady Danbury is played by Adjoa Andoh & Arsema Thomas.

Top 10 Unforgettable Quotes by Lady Danbury from Bridgerton

  1. “I am not quiet. It is simply that my husband is loud.” (to Augusta, Queen Charlotte Ep. 1×02)
  2. “You are most fortunate. You may not like today. But trust me. You are most fortunate.” (to Violet, Queen Charlotte Ep. 1×03)
  3. “We are full of gossip and story, but as women, we are never the topics of the conversation. Lady Whistledown never writes of our hearts. We are untold stories.” (to Violet, Queen Charlotte Ep. 1×05)
  4. “You are the son of Agatha Danbury, born name Soma, Royal Blood of the Kpa-Mende Bo tribe in Sierra Leone. You come from warriors. We win. Never forget that.” (to her son, Queen Charlotte Ep. 1×05)
  5. “I knew I would have to step into the light someday, and I could not very well be frightened. So, instead, I made myself frightening. I sharpened my wit, my wardrobe, and my eye, and I made myself the most terrifying creature in any room I entered.” (to Simon, Bridgerton Ep. 1×02)
  6. “You must promise me that when you step into the light… you will be worthy of the attention you command.” (to Simon, Bridgerton Ep. 1×02)
  7. “We were two separate societies, divided by color, until a king fell in love with one of us. Love, Your Grace… conquers all.” (to Simon, Bridgerton Ep. 1×04)
  8. “Pride will cost you everything and leave you with nothing. You must not allow it to happen to you too.” (to Simon, Bridgerton Ep. 1×08)
  9. “Not if I have something to say about it. And as you very well know, I always have something to say.” (to Violet, Bridgerton Ep. 2×01)
  10. “Very few attempt to outwit me, and even fewer succeed.” (to Kate, Bridgerton Ep. 2×01)

 

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