Downton Abbey Quotes
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
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
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.
Isobel: And you have never strayed again?
Violet: I never risked everything again.
Isobel: That is not quite what I asked.
Violet: That is all the answer you will get.
Isobel: I will not have my final years overshadowed by a tearstained tug-of-war.
Violet: I suppose there is one consolation. Dr. Clarkson will be delighted.
Tom: Well if you don't like her, why have you gone through the business of sending Shrimpy to her rescue?
Isobel: That is what I keep asking.
Edith: Well granny?
Violet: Oh you know me, never complain, never explain.
Edith: You don't usually have very much trouble complaining.
Tea gowns! We aren't in the 1980s anymore Mr. Moseley.
Mrs. Hughes
I tell you what why don't we all go to lunch on Wednesday, even you Edith
Mary
He can have his..what do you call it now. His stag party?
Mrs. Sinderby