Downton Abbey Quotes
Sybil: But Granny you don't really want things to go back to the way they were, surely.
Violet: Well of course I do, and as quickly as possible.
The customs are so strange in this country. A couple is barely allowed two seconds alone before they are expected to walk down the aisle.
Richard
Cora: So you still want to keep him on?
Robert: Cora, Bates' wife has committed suicide. It's very sad, of course, but not when I last looked, a reason to sack him.
Sometimes Cora, you can be curiously unfeeling.
Lord Grantham
It will take a man who is more than I am now to follow you. So don't think about me.
Matthew
Matthew: If I thought for a moment that I was an argument against your marriage, I should jump into the nearest river.
Mary: And how would you manage that without my help?
Matthew: Well, I'd get you to push me in.
Patrick: Did I love her very much?
Edith: I'm not the one to ask.
Patrick: Because you were the one who loved really loved me, you mean?
Edith: I never thought Patrick knew.
Patrick: Well, he did. I do.
Mr. Carson: Men will always be men, but for any young woman to let her judgement so desert her...
Lady Grantham: She's not the first lady to be taken in by a uniform, and don't worry, Carson, the baby will ensure she pays the price.
Thomas: Are your suggesting the black market, Mrs. Padmore? I'm quite shocked.
Mrs. Padmore: Oh, I doubt that very much.
I'm an American. I don't share your English hatred of comfort.
Lady Grantham
You made me a liar while he were alive. You'll not make me false to his memory.
Daisy
Mrs. O'Brien: I'm not jealous. I just don't want it to spoil things.
Bates: Why, because we've all been such pals untl now?
