Downton Abbey Quotes
Whatever Matthew’s intentions, it is not a will.
Robert
Robert: Let me manage things in my own way.
Mary: I have ideas, you know. Matthew and I used to talk.
Robert: I know I’m right in this. Now go to bed.
But Germany? After four years of fighting, you’d join the most hated race in Europe to get a divorce – for me?
Edith
Really? I can only say that while I will overlook Mary’s poor judgment, I will not overlook yours.
Violet
You’re letting yourself be defeated, milady. I’m sorry if it’s a lapse to say so, but someone has to.
Carson
Just because you’re an old widow, I see no necessity to eat off a tray.
Violet
But you see, when your only child dies, you’re not a mother anymore. You’re not anything really, and that’s what I’m trying to get used to.
Isobel
Tom: She loved him very much.
Robert: And the price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.
Tom: I know that.
Robert: Of course you do. I’m very sorry.
But bein’ a nanny. You’re not one of the family, but you’re not one of us either.
Daisy
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
Hello my dearest little chap. I wonder if he has any idea how much joy he brings with him.
Matthew
Robert: They do say there's a wild man inside all of us.
Violet: If only he would stay inside.
