Favorite Downton Abbey Quotes
Mr. Carson: Keeping up standards is the only way we can show the Germans we will not be beaten in the end.
Mrs. Hughes: Well, give me some warning the next time we're expecting Germans at Downton and I'll see what I can do!
I don't believe it. Must I be undermined at every turn?
Carson
I hope I'm allowed to be your Mary Crawley for all of eternity and not Edith's version, or not anyone else's for that matter.
Mary
Dr. Clarkson: Even to ease suffering, I could never justify telling an outright lie.
Violet: Do we have nothing in common?
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.
War has a way of distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that don't.
Matthew
Just because you’re an old widow, I see no necessity to eat off a tray.
Violet
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.
Cora: You are being tested. And you know what they say my darling. Being tested only makes you stronger.
Edith: I don't think it's working with me.
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.
Robert: They do say there's a wild man inside all of us.
Violet: If only he would stay inside.
Mr. Carson: Now, if I was a gentleman, I wouldn't want to know.
Mrs. Hughes: But you're not.
Mr. Carson: Fortunately.
