Daisy: Well, I'm glad. You deserve it.
Molesley: I never think I deserve anything. Perhaps I've been wrong all along.

Mrs. Hughes: They don't live badly, you have to concede.
Mr. Carson: They live as they're supposed to live. It has its burdens and its benefits.
Mrs. Hughes: Better than a life of just burden.

Cora: No, the third Earl built it. Well, he didn't really build it so much as envelope it, because this room is originally medieval. It was the monks' refectory of an abbey that King Henry sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Visitor: Is that why it's called Downton Abbey?
Cora: ... I guess so.

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Mary: Why are you playing Cupid?
Tom: He's nice, he's mad about you and he loves cars. I rest my case.

Henry: Look, I know I'm not what you're after. My prospects are modest at best, and you... Well, you're a great catch. But you're also a woman that I happen to be falling in love with. Gosh, that sounds rather feeble, doesn't it?
Mary: No, not at all. As an argument, I think it's rather compelling.

Tom: Why don't you come with us?
Edith: And watch Mary flirt with her oily driver? No, thank you.
Tom: Can't you be pleased for her?
Edith: I'm as pleased for her as she would be for me.

Mary: Ah, Granny, thank god you're here. What else could I tell them about the library?
Violet: The library was assembled by the fourth Earl. He loved books.
Mary: What else did he collect.
Violet: Horses and women.

Thomas: Mr. Carson, how long do I have to work in this house before I am given any credit?
Carson: That is all very well, but we are talking about a vulnerable young man, and I must look to his welfare.
Thomas: Yes, and if I were to give you my word of honor that nothing took place of which you would disapprove?
Carson: If I could just be sure.
Thomas: So my word is still not good enough, Mr. Carson, after so many years?
Carson: I only wish it were.

But what on earth can we show them to give them their money's worth? Lady Grantham knitting? Lady Mary in the bath?

Robert

Robert: If this is it, just know that I have loved you very, very much.
Cora: This isn't it, darling. Don't... We won't let this be it.

Robert: I'm afraid Mama seems to see this argument as the last battle, the last big fight of her life. If she loses, there'll be hell to pay.
Cora: Then there'll be hell to pay.

Bertie: I suppose you've guessed how much I like you.
Edith: You don't know me.
Bertie: I know you enough to think about you all the time when we're apart.

Downton Abbey Quotes

Anna, help me do battle with this monstrosity. It looks like a creature from the lost world.

Violet

But no, I'm not back in the Army. It appears they don't want me.

Lord Robert