Downton Abbey Season 6 Episode 1: "601" Quotes
Lord Grantham: If I could stop history in its tracks, maybe I would. But I can't, Carson. Nor you nor I can hold back time.
Carson: Unfortunately.
I love her, Mrs. Patmore. I am happy and tickled and bursting with pride that she would agree to be my wife. And I want us to live as closely as two people can for the time that remains to us on earth.
Carson
Lord Grantham: I suppose you were a widow after all and not a deb in her first season.
Mary: But it's still not the way your parents would have behaved.
Lord Grantham [laughs]: Oh, I don't know. If you can believe what they write about the Edwardians these days.
Mary: I'm impressed. My darling papa, transformed into Machiavelli at a touch. Will wonders never cease?
Lord Grantham: Is that a compliment?
I'd rather be alone than with the wrong man.
Mary
Lord Grantham: I can hardly believe it. I used to come here all the time as a boy.
Edith: "Sic transit gloria mundi."
Mary: Will you be as philosophical when it's our turn?
Sometimes it's good to rule by fear.
Violet
