Popular Downton Abbey Quotes
Ethan: Would you care to try one of these? I think they're quite nice.
Carson: Have you lost your mind?
Ethan: Why? What have I done?
Carson: You're a footman, not a traveling salesman. Please keep your opinions on the catering to yourself.
But don't worry. I'm well prepared for cold baths, warm baths and most of all the food.
Harold
However you wish to command me I am your servant Mr. Branson, but I was not aware I was under orders as to what I might think.
Barrow
Isobel: Fear not, I've never traveled with a maid. You can share my knowledge of the jungle.
Violet: Can't you even offer help without sounding like a trumpeter on the peak of the moral high ground?
Isobel: You take everything as a compliment.
Violet: I advise you to do the same. It saves many an awkward moment.
Cora: I hate to lie.
Mary: I'll do it. I don't mind lying.
Mrs. Patmore: Why do you need ice?
Carson: Mr. Levinson seems to want it in everything he drinks.
Mrs. Hughes: You can always hold my hand if it will make you feel a bit steady.
Carson: I don't know how, but you managed to make that sound a little risque.
Mrs. Hughes: And if I did, we're gettin' on Mr. Carson, you and I. We can afford to live a little.
There is nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that is the real test.
Violet Crawley
I feel a shaking of the ground I stand on. That everything I believe in will be tested and held up for ridicule over the next few years.
Carson
Violet: You should write a book: Daughter's-in-law and how to survive them.
The older I get the more I feel we do these things very oddly. Even now we must decide whether to share our lives with someone without ever spending some real time with them, let alone, you know.
