Downton Abbey Quotes

Edith: But Germany? After four years of fighting, you’d join the most hated race in Europe to get a divorce – for me?

Violet: Really? I can only say that while I will overlook Mary’s poor judgment, I will not overlook yours.

Carson: You’re letting yourself be defeated, milady. I’m sorry if it’s a lapse to say so, but someone has to.

Violet: Just because you’re an old widow, I see no necessity to eat off a tray.

Isobel: But you see, when your only child dies, you’re not a mother anymore. You’re not anything really, and that’s what I’m trying to…

Tom: She loved him very much. Robert: And the price of great love is great misery when one of you dies. Tom: I know that. Robert: Of…

Daisy: But bein’ a nanny. You’re not one of the family, but you’re not one of us either.

Mary: I hope I’m allowed to be your Mary Crawley for all of eternity and not Edith’s version, or not anyone else’s for that matter.

Matthew: Hello my dearest little chap. I wonder if he has any idea how much joy he brings with him.

Robert: They do say there’s a wild man inside all of us. Violet: If only he would stay inside.