Popular Downton Abbey Quotes
Principles are like prayers. Noble, of course, but awkward at a party.
Violet
Every relationship has its ups and downs.
Miss Hughes
It a fad, it won't last.
Robert
Robert: And tell your friend Bricker to stop flirting with Isis. There is nothing more ill bred than flirting with someone else's dog.
Cora: Okay, I'll tell him to stop flirting.
I must be sure I am right to want this man, as my friend, as my lover, as my husband.
Mary
Violet:The monarchy has thrived on magic and mystery, strip them away and people may think the royal family is just like us.
Isobel: Would that be so wrong?
Violet: Well, only if they want to stay in Buckingham Palace.
Mary: Obviously, this is very shocking to your generation.
Violet: Don't let us hide behind the changing times my dear, this is shocking to most people in 1924.
Tom: Well if you love me, you will support me.
Mary: I suppose I have too.
Violet: I agree. Hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.
Isobel: Oh, you only say that to sound cleaver.
Violet: I know. You should try it.
Because how ever much the couple may strive to be honest, no one is ever in possession of the facts.
Violet
How flattering. We go to bed together and you wake up.
Tony
Miss Bunting: Have I finished us before we ever really even got started?
Tom: You pitted yourself against them from the start. How can you retreat from that position?
Miss Bunting: You mean I have made it them or me?
Tom: Haven't you? You despise the family, but I think you forget that my wife was one of them. My child is one of them. Where does that leave me?
Miss Bunting: don't you despise them? Really?
Tom: No, I don't. I would like things to change, but I don't think in black and white terms anymore.
Miss Bunting: Well I do.
