Favorite Downton Abbey Quotes
Isobel: You take everything as a compliment.
Violet: I advise you to do the same. It saves many an awkward moment.
You'll find there's never a dull moment in this house.
Violet
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.
What's the matter, Robert? Are you afraid you'll be converted while you're not looking?
Cora
Anna: But I am spoiled for you, and I can never be unspoiled.
Bates: You are not spoiled. You're made higher to me and holier because of the suffering you have been put through. You're my wife and I have never been prouder nor loved you more than I love you now in this moment.
Mrs. O'Brien: Can I borrow some baking soda?
Mrs. Padmore: Borrow? Why? Are you planning on giving it back?
Matthew: Who cast you the Florence Nightengale?
Mary: We can't leave all the moral high ground to Edith, she might get lonely there.
Sometimes, it feels as if all the men I have ever danced with are dead. I just feel so useless, wasting my life while they sacrifice theirs.
Sybil
Violet: And this is your beau, is it? A man who lends money and then uses it to blackmail the recipient?
Mary: He lives in a tough world.
Violet: Will you be joining him there?
Sometimes Cora, you can be curiously unfeeling.
Lord Grantham
Don't feel sorry for me Mrs. Hughes I know what real love is and there are not many who can say that. I'm one of the lucky ones.
Anna
Sybil: Yes, my answer is that I'm ready to travel, and you're my ticket. To get away from this house, away from this life...
Branson: Me?
Sybil: No. Uncle Tom Cobly.
Branson: I'm sorry, but I've waited so long for those words, that I can't believe I'm hearing them. You won't mind burning your bridges.
Sybil: Mind? Fetch me the matches! Yes, you can kiss me. But that is all until everything is settled.
Branson: For now, God knows, it's enough that I can kiss you.
