Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey Quotes (Page 2)

Season 3 Episode 6: "306"

Thomas: Funny. We're quite a pair, aren't we? We both like to look very sure of ourselves, but we're not so sure underneath, are we?
 • Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Edith: I don't want to fall out with Papa, but I don't want to be invisible, either. I've had enough of it.
 • Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

Alfred: They're showing a movie tonight in the village, down east. It's about woman who survives in the wilderness by her own wits and courage.
Miss O'Brien: Blimey. They've stolen my story.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Ethel: I'm studying my lady. These days a working lady must have a skill.
Violet: But you seem to have so many.
 • Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

Isobel: So you don't think I should have given Ethel a second chance.
Violet: I did not criticize your motives, but did you really consider? Ethel is notorious in the village.
Isobel: I don't think so.
Violet: I know so.
 • Rating: 1.0 / 5.0

Tom: Are you sure you wouldn't rather just cut and run like me?
 • Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Robert: He only wants to persuade you to write for his horrible paper.
Edith: Still, I think I will go. It seems rude not to, in a way, and I haven't been to London in ages.
 • Rating: 1.0 / 5.0

Season 3 Episode 5: "305"

Mrs. Hughes: Jesus did manage to eat with Mary Magdalene.
Mr. Molesley: We can't be sure he ate with her. He did allow her to wash his feet.
Mrs. Hughes: Well, I'll tell Ethel she has a treat in store.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Violet: I suppose she has an appropriate costume for every activity.
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Ivy: He must be interested in someone. He's young, isn't he?
Thomas: Well that someone isn't you.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Dr. Clarkson: Even to ease suffering, I could never justify telling an outright lie.
Violet: Do we have nothing in common?
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Mary: But not only Downton. Us. We must never take us for granted. Who knows what's coming?
Matthew: I have to take one thing for granted. That I will love you until the last breath leaves my body.
Mary: Oh my darling; me, too. Me, too.
 • Rating: 1.0 / 5.0

Ethel: Can I really do it? Salmon mousse?
Mrs. Patmore: Anyone who has use of their limbs can make use of their limbs can make Salmon mousse.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Violet: I will not criticize a mother who grieves for daughter.
Robert: I think she grieves for her marriage as well.
 • Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

Cora: You believed Tapsil because he's knighted and fashionable and has a practice in Harley Street. You let all that nonsense weigh against saving our daughter's life, which is what I find so very hard to forgive.
Robert: Do you think I miss her any less than you?
Cora: I should think you miss her more, since you blocked the last chance we had to prevent her death.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Cora: Is it over? When one loses a child, is it ever really over?
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 3 Episode 4: "304"

Cora: I should. I want to. I have to apologize for our behavior.
Mary: What? Why?
Cora: Because if we'd listened to him, Sybil might still be alive. But Sir Phillip and your father knew better and now she's dead.
 • Rating: Unrated

Mary: She was the only person living who always thought you and I were such nice people.
Edith: Oh Mary. Do you think we might get along a little better in the future?
Mary: I doubt it. But since this is the last time we three will all be together in this life, let's love each other now, as sisters should.
 • Rating: Unrated

Cora: We'll look after them. We'll look after them both. Don't you worry about that.
 • Rating: Unrated

Thomas: I don't know why I'm crying really. She wouldn't have noticed if I died.
Anna: You don't mean that.
Thomas: No, no I don't. In my life I can tell you not many have been kind to me. She was one of the few.
 • Rating: Unrated

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