Cora: You are being tested. And you know what they say my darling, being tested only makes you stronger
Robert: “Mary can be such a child. She thinks that if you put a toy down, it’ll still be sitting there when you want to play with it again.”
Thomas: I’m not foul Mr. Carson. I’m not the same as you, but I’m not foul.
John Bates: “No man can regret loving as I have loved you.”
Violet: “We only know what we are capable of when we test our limits.”
Mrs Patmore: “Nothing in life is sure.”
Mrs Hughes: “We must all have our hearts broken once or twice before we’re done.”
Violet: Edith dear, you’re a woman with a brain and reasonability. Stop whining and find something to do
Anna: “For once in my life I’d like to sleep until I woke up natural.”
Carson : “You’re nervous because you’re intelligent; only stupid people are foolhardy.”
Violet: “I’m not a romantic, but even I concede that the heart does not exist solely for the purpose to pump blood.”
Anna: I love you Mr. Bates. I know it’s not lady-like to say it,but I’m not a lady and I don’t pretend to be
Robert: “I want a good man for you, a brave man. Find a cowboy in the Middle West and bring him back to shake us up a bit.
Mrs Patmore: “ “Sympathy butters no parsnips.”
Mrs Patmore: “You can’t spend too long on a one-sided love.”
Cora: “I think accepting change is quite as important as defending the past.”
Anna: Don’t feel sorry for me Mrs. Hughes I know what real love is and there are not many who can say that. I’m one of the lucky ones.
Anna: “Good men… They’re not like buses. There won’t be another one round in 10 minutes.”
Robert: My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.
Violet: “A lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears.”
Violet: I’m not a romantic, but even I concede that the heart does not exist solely for the purpose to pump blood.
Isobel : “Seems a pity not to take a chance to end a quarrel. Isn’t it better than to let it fester?”
Mary: “Now stop talking and kiss me before I get cross.”
Dr. Clarkson : “Harsh reality is always better than false hope.”
Robert Crawley : “Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it; so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks.”
Bates: “I miss a lot of things; but you have to keep moving, don’t you?”
Violet: “All life is a series of problems, that we must try and solve.”
Violet: I’m a woman Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.
Violet: “Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.”
Matthew: I can never be happy with anyone else as long as you walked the earth
Anna: “I love you, Mr. Bates! And I know it’s not ladylike to say so, but I’m not a lady and I don’t pretend to be.”
Matthew Crawley: You’ve lived your life, and I’ve lived mine. Now it’s time we live them together.
Carson: I’ve never been called a liberal in my life and I don’t intend to start now.
Mrs. Hughes: “You can always hold my hand if you need to feel steady.” Carson: “I think I will hold your hand. It’ll make me feel a bit steadier.”
Matthew: We’re brothers-in-law with high minded wives. We’ve got to stick together.
Anna: “I love you Mr. Bates. I know it’s not ladylike to say it, but I’m not a lady and I don’t pretend to be
Richard: I’ll be leaving in the morning, Lady Grantham, I doubt it we’ll meet again. Violet: Do you promise?
Tom: We all live in a harsh world. But at least I know I do
Violet: “There’s nothing simpler than avoiding people you don’t like. Avoiding one’s friends, that’s the real test.”
Robert: “There is nothing more ill-bred than trying to steal the affections of one’s dog.”
Carson : “The nature of life is not permanence, but flux.”
Sybil: No one ever learned anything from a governess except for French and how to curtsy. Violet: What more do you need?
Violet: That is the thing about nature. There is so much of it.
Anna: “I’d rather have the right man, than the right wedding.”
Violet: “Lie” is so unmusical a word
Matthew: “You’ve lived your life, and I’ve lived mine. Now it’s time we live them together.”
Violet: “First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.”
Matthew: ”War has a way of distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that don’t.
Mary: I know we haven’t always gotten along, and I doubt things change much in the future, but today, I wish you all the luck in the world.
Carson: “I am not a complete stranger to romance, Mrs. Hughes, if that’s what you’re implying.”
John Bates: “I’ve lived in such a fog of misery since I left you. I’d forgotten what happiness is.”
Violet: “Men are often lost in thought; it’s rather unfamiliar territory for them.”
Hugh: “Love is like riding or speaking French: if you don’t learn it young, it’s hard to get the trick of it later.”