Favorite Downton Abbey Quotes
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.
I'm a woman Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.
Violet
Robert: You'll be in a very junior seat.
Violet: Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter. (You have to step back to jump further.)
Anna, help me do battle with this monstrosity. It looks like a creature from the lost world.
Violet
It always happens. When you give these little people power, it goes to their head like strong drink.
Violet
Tom: You're frightened of being hurt again. But let me tell you this: You will be hurt again, and so will I, because being hurt is part of being alive. But that is no reason to give up on the man who is right for you.
If you're turning American on me, then I'll go downstairs.
Robert
Daisy: Don't you believe in spirits then?
Mrs. Hughes: Well, I don't believe they play board games.
Richard: You say the chauffeur is gone, so at least I could drive the car.
Mary: Hopefully over the chauffeur.
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.
Edith: I don't think I want to go back, either.
Sybil: Then don't. You're far nicer than you were before the war, you know.
Sybil: But Granny you don't really want things to go back to the way they were, surely.
Violet: Well of course I do, and as quickly as possible.
