Downton Abbey Quotes
Violet: Nineteen twenty. Is it to be believed? I feel as old as Methuselah.
Robert: But so much prettier.
Violet: When I think what the last ten years has brought, God knows what we're in for now.
Cora: Sybil's pregnant!
Robert: I see. So that's it then. No return. She's crossed the Rubicon.
Anna, you must prepare for the worst. I'm not saying it will happen, but you must prepare for it.
Bates
Daisy: Don't you believe in spirits then?
Mrs. Hughes: Well, I don't believe they play board games.
Violet: Oh this is love...what is it?
Isobel: What does it look like?
Violet: Something for getting stones out of horses hooves?
Isobel: It's a nutcracker. We thought you'd like it. To crack your nuts.
Richard: Why do we have to help ourselves at luncheon?
Robert: It's Downton tradition. They have our feast at luncheon and we have ours in the evening.
Richard: Well why can't they have their lunch early and they serve us, like they normally do.
Mary: Because it's Christmas day.
Richard: It's not how we'll do it at Haxsby.
Violet: Which I can easily believe.
Mrs. Hughes: I wish I could tell you not to worry.
Anna: My husband's on trial for his life, Mrs. Hughes, of course I worry.
Mrs. Hughes: Well, I'm I'd fashioned enough to believe that they can't prove him guilty, when he's not.
Well, Mrs. Bates. You've had your way with me. I only hope you don't come to regret it.
Mr. Bates
Cora: We're all right, aren't we Robert?
Robert: Of course we are.
Richard: You say the chauffeur is gone, so at least I could drive the car.
Mary: Hopefully over the chauffeur.
I do have some self worth. Just not enough to make you marry the wrong person.
Lavinia
I'm a little person. An ordinary person. And when I saw you and Mary together, I thought how fine, how right you were together.
Lavinia
