Downton Abbey Quotes

Matthew: I just wish that I could get away from this damned stick!

Violet: Marriage is a long business. There’s no getting out of it for our kind of people. You will live 40, 50 years with one of these…

Robert: Matthew’s been lame? Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth? Can you hear how stupid and selfish they are? Because I can.

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?…

Violet: Oh certainly. All this unbridled joy has given me quite an appetite.

Mary: So you’d be uncomfortable, working for a spymaster. I’m disappointed in you. And I always thought you were fond of me.

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.

Carson: 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.

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…

Richard: The customs are so strange in this country. A couple is barely allowed two seconds alone before they are expected to walk down…