Popular Downton Abbey Quotes
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.
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
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.
You see, I think I can help her, in those early years, when I can help her get it right. And if I can, I must.
Carson
Edith: I don't think I want to go back, either.
Sybil: Then don't. You're far nicer than you were before the war, you know.
So you'd be uncomfortable, working for a spymaster. I'm disappointed in you. And I always thought you were fond of me.
Mary
Oh certainly. All this unbridled joy has given me quite an appetite.
Violet
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.
Matthew's been lame? Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth? Can you hear how stupid and selfish they are? Because I can.
Robert
Marriage is a long business. There's no getting out of it for our kind of people. You will live 40, 50 years with one of these women. Just make sure it's the right one.
Violet
I just wish that I could get away from this damned stick!
Matthew
But no, I'm not back in the Army. It appears they don't want me.
Lord Robert
