Tom: I'm sorry, but I can't turn into someone else just to please you.
Violet: Mores the pity.

Violet: Are you really that tall?
Alfred: Yes m'lady.
Violet: I thought you might be walking on stilts.

The estate must be a major employer and support the house or there's no point. To any of it.

Robert

Mary: He's so relieved we're getting married he wouldn't mind if you carried me up naked.
Matthew: Careful, I might try it.

No, tis not an interview Miss O'Brien, but he is on trial and if he cannot meet our standards he will be found guilty.

Mr. Carson

Miss O'Brien, we are about to hire a footman, and I have no time to be training hobbledeehoys.

Mr. Carson

May I remind you, Mr. Barrow, that in this house Mr. Bates is a wronged man seeking justice. If you have any problems with that definition, I suggest you eat in the yard.

Mr. Carson

You've lived your life, and I've lived mine. Now it's time we live them together.

Matthew

Matthew: Sorry for the vase.
Violet: Oh don't be. It' was a wedding present from a dreadful, dreadful aunt. I've hated it a half a century.

Richard: I'll be leaving in the morning, Lady Grantham, I doubt it we'll meet again.
Violet: Do you promise?

It may be wrong that I'm complaining with Mr. Bates the way he is, but it reminds me that life's short and I'm wasting mine.

Daisy

No fortune? He's lucky not to be playing the violin in Lester square.

Violet

Downton Abbey Quotes

Anna, help me do battle with this monstrosity. It looks like a creature from the lost world.

Violet

But no, I'm not back in the Army. It appears they don't want me.

Lord Robert