I tell you what why don't we all go to lunch on Wednesday, even you Edith

Mary

He can have his..what do you call it now. His stag party?

Mrs. Sinderby

Rose: Mommy. Daddy. This is Atticus.
Atticus: How do you do?
Lady Flintshirer: What a peculiar name.

Cora: How can you imagine I will ever trust you again?
Rosamund: She doesn’t mean it Mama.
Violet: On the contrary, it is the most honest thing she has ever said to me.

My dear. A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears.

Violet

Violet: But Isobel and I had a lot in common and I shall miss her.
Mary: Granny you are quite dewey eyed, I never think of you as sentimental.

Charles: You might have allowed her to be the first woman.
Mary: Nonsense, I don't believe in letting people win.
Charles: Even if it is in your own interest.

Mable: Then why turn up looking like a cross between a Vogue fashion plate and a case of dynamite.
Mary: Well I can't make it too easy for him.

I blame the war. Before 1914, nobody thought about anything at all.

Violet

Oh, it is you. I thought it was a man wearing your clothes.

Violet

If you can honestly say you have never let a flirtation get out of hand since we married. If you have never given a woman the wrong impression than by all means stay away. Otherwise, I expect you back in my room tonight.

Cora

Am I supposed to applaud you for poking round in my things?

Anna

Downton Abbey Season 5 Quotes

Violet: You should write a book: Daughter's-in-law and how to survive them.

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