Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey Season 2 Quotes

Season 2 Episode 7: "Season 2 Finale"

Matthew: You've lived your life, and I've lived mine. Now it's time we live them together.
 • Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

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.
 • Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

Richard: I'll be leaving in the morning, Lady Grantham, I doubt it we'll meet again.
Violet: Do you promise?
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Daisy: 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.
 • Rating: 2.3 / 5.0

Violet: No fortune? He's lucky not to be playing the violin in Lester square.
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

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.
 • Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

Cora: Sybil's pregnant!
Robert: I see. So that's it then. No return. She's crossed the Rubicon.
 • Rating: 2.3 / 5.0

Bates: Anna, you must prepare for the worst. I'm not saying it will happen, but you must prepare for it.
 • Rating: 1.0 / 5.0

Daisy: Don't you believe in spirits then?
Mrs. Hughes: Well, I don't believe they play board games.
 • Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

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.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

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.
 • Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

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.
 • Rating: 3.3 / 5.0

Season 2 Episode 6: "206"

Mr. Bates: Well, Mrs. Bates. You've had your way with me. I only hope you don't come to regret it.
 • Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

Cora: We're all right, aren't we Robert?
Robert: Of course we are.
 • Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

Richard: You say the chauffeur is gone, so at least I could drive the car.
Mary: Hopefully over the chauffeur.
 • Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Lavinia: I do have some self worth. Just not enough to make you marry the wrong person.
 • Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

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.
 • Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

Mrs. Padmore: You never know people, do ya? You can work with people for 20 years and never know them at all.
 • Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Robert: If you're turning American on me, then I'll go downstairs.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Violet: What news of Sybil?
Edith: She's in with Papa now.
Violet: I'm afraid it will end in tears.
Sybil: Maybe, but they won't be Sybil's.
 • Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

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