Downton Abbey Season 2 Quotes
Sybil: Yes, my answer is that I'm ready to travel, and you're my ticket. To get away from this house, away from this life...
Branson: Me?
Sybil: No. Uncle Tom Cobly.
Branson: I'm sorry, but I've waited so long for those words, that I can't believe I'm hearing them. You won't mind burning your bridges.
Sybil: Mind? Fetch me the matches! Yes, you can kiss me. But that is all until everything is settled.
Branson: For now, God knows, it's enough that I can kiss you.
Oh certainly. All this unbridled joy has given me quite an appetite.
Violet
So you'd be uncomfortable, working for a spymaster. I'm disappointed in you. And I always thought you were fond of me.
Mary
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.
You see, I think I can help her, in those early years, when I can help her get it right. And if I can, I must.
Carson
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.
The customs are so strange in this country. A couple is barely allowed two seconds alone before they are expected to walk down the aisle.
Richard
Cora: So you still want to keep him on?
Robert: Cora, Bates' wife has committed suicide. It's very sad, of course, but not when I last looked, a reason to sack him.
Sometimes Cora, you can be curiously unfeeling.
Lord Grantham
It will take a man who is more than I am now to follow you. So don't think about me.
Matthew
Matthew: If I thought for a moment that I was an argument against your marriage, I should jump into the nearest river.
Mary: And how would you manage that without my help?
Matthew: Well, I'd get you to push me in.
Patrick: Did I love her very much?
Edith: I'm not the one to ask.
Patrick: Because you were the one who loved really loved me, you mean?
Edith: I never thought Patrick knew.
Patrick: Well, he did. I do.
