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“It's the job of grandmothers to interfere!”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 4: Episode 1
Tagged: grandmothers, interfere, Meddlesome
“Love is like riding or speaking French: if you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.”
— Hugh "Shrimpie" MacClare, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 8
Tagged: Love, Riding, speaking french, young
“If you must pay money, better to a doctor than an undertaker.”
— Mrs. Patmore, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 2
Tagged: Money, doctor, undertaker
“No farmer is his own boss—he takes his orders from the sun and the snow and the wind and the rain.”
— Daisy Mason, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 6
Tagged: Farmer, boss, Sun, Snow, Wind, Rain
“Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: You Americans never understand the importance of tradition.

Martha Levinson: Yes we do. We just don't give it power over us... history and tradition took Europe into a world war. Maybe you should think about letting go of its hand.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 1
Tagged: Tradition, Americans, Europe, world war
“Lady Mary is an uppity minx who's the author of her own misfortune.”
— Mrs. Hughes, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Seven
Tagged: minx, uppity, Misfortune
“Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It is only afterwards they share their doubts.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Eight
Tagged: Lawyers, confident, Trial, Doubts
“I know it's cliché, but I believe she died of a broken heart.”
— Matthew Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Eight
Tagged: cliche, Broken Heart
“Sometimes a hard sacrifice must be made for a future that's worth havin'.”
— Tom Branson, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Five
Tagged: Sacrifice, Future
“I don't dislike him. I just don't like him, which is quite different.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Six
Tagged: Dislike, like
“The truth is neither here nor there. It's the look of the thing that matters.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Two
Tagged: Truth, Appearance
“I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Four
Tagged: Woman, contrary
“[to Thomas] War has a way of distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that don't.”
— Matthew Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode One
Tagged: War, What Matters
“We can't have him assassinated. I suppose.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Seven
Tagged: Assassination, Wisdom
“What the eye can't see the heart won't grieve over.”
— Mrs. Patmore, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Five
Tagged: Eye, heart, Grief
“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.”
— Anna Smith, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Four
Tagged: Love, Ladylike
“One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a constant state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Three
Tagged: Death, Foreigner, newspaper
“Every mountain is 'unclimbable' until someone climbs it. So every ship is 'unsinkable' until it sinks.”
— Robert Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode One
Tagged: Mountain, Obstacles, Determination
“No one wants to kiss a girl in black.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Two
Tagged: kiss, Girl, black clothing
“Nothing is as changeable as a young man's heart. Take hope--and warning--from that.”
— Mrs. Patmore, Downton Abbey, Series 4: Episode 2
Tagged: tongue in cheek, Warning, heart
“When tragedy strikes there is a abject of blame. And in the events of tragedy we usually blame ourselves. You are not to blame. No one is to blame.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 5
Tagged: Tragedy, Marriage
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 3: Episode 3
Tagged: wit
“War breaks down barriers and when peacetime re-erects them, it's very easy to find oneself on the wrong side.”
— Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Four
Tagged: War, peacetime
“I know what it is to work now. To have a full day, to be tired in a good way.”
— Sybil Crawley, Downton Abbey, Series 2: Episode Seven
Tagged: Work, Good work
“Politicians often can't recognize the changes that are inevitable.”
— Branson, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Six
Tagged: political, Reflection
“Every woman goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.”
— Dowager Countess, Downton Abbey, Series 5: Episode 2
Tagged: Marriage, tongue in cheek
“You can change your life if you want to. Sometimes you have to be hard on yourself, but you can change it completely.”
— John Bates, Downton Abbey, Series 1: Episode Three
Tagged: Life, Change
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