Favorite Downton Abbey Quotes
I doubt we'll need more than eight servants tops, so it can be very economical.
Robert
Do you? Because if you try to find one more excuse, I'll have to beat you about the head.
Mary
Mary: I know we haven't always gotten along, and I doubt things change much in the future, but today, I wish you all the luck in the world.
Edith: Thank you.
Anna: What would you like me to get you?
Edith: A different life.
Edith: I don't have the vote. I'm not over thirty and I'm not a householder. It's ridiculous.
Matthew: You should write to the Times.
Edith: Maybe I will.
Some manners wouldn't go amiss.
Isobel
Yes, that's it. I should think he fancies a night walk in the pouring rain without a coat.
Miss O'Brien
What chance is there for a woman like her? She's taken the road to ruin. There's no way back.
Mrs. Hughes
Matthew: Downton is being mismanaged, cousin Violet, and something must be done. The thing is, how do I do it without putting people's noses out of joint?
Violet: Oh my dear. I don't think there is a way to achieve that. I mean, you must do what must be done, of course, but I can safely say a great many noses will be out of joint.
You better ask Mr. Barrow. He's the clock expert. He's the clock expert, but of course, it's quite wrong for a valet to do it.
Miss O'Brien
I think he harks business with being mean, or worse; middle class, like me.
Matthew
Anxiety is an enemy to pregnancy.
Sir Phillip
