- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Are you quite sure about Lavinia?
- Lady Mary Crawley: She wasn't Sir Richard's mistress. She gave him the evidence to settle the debt of someone she loved.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: And this is your beau is it? A man who lends money then uses it to blackmail the recipient?
- Lady Mary Crawley: He lives in a tough world.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: And will you be joining him there?
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [Drolly sarcastic about converting Downton to a convalesent home] Oh, really it's living in a second-rate hotel, where the guests continue arriving, and no one seems to leave.
- Sarah O'Brien: [as they exit the room she notices Bates' reaction to Thomas' bullying of Daisy] Watch yourself, Mr. Bates. Thomas is in charge now, and it won't do to get on the wrong side of him.
- John Bates: [dryly] Is there a right side?
- Dr. Clarkson: I've done as you asked, Mrs. Hughes. I think Barrow's taken it on board.
- Mrs. Hughes: He's getting grander than Lady Mary, and that's saying something.
- Isobel Crawley: May I have a word?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Can it wait?
- Isobel Crawley: No it cannot wait. I've just come from downstairs where I learned that my timetable has been wantonly disregarded.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: If you mean the new lunchtime, the wretched servants were having to eat at 11 and then starve until their tea at 6 so...
- Isobel Crawley: I also discovered that you tore up the nurses timetable.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: I haven't torn up anything.
- Isobel Crawley: Of course, it would be foolish to accuse you of being unprofessional since you've never had a profession in your life.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Now, just a minute...
- Isobel Crawley: You may think you have the right to ordain the universe, but in this field...
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: No, not in this field, in this house yes I do have the right given me by Dr Clarkson and by the law of the land. This is my house and I am in charge right alongside you and if you would stop your bullying...
- Isobel Crawley: That's enough. I will not listen to this. If I am not appreciated here I will seek some other place where I will make a difference.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Good.
- Isobel Crawley: I mean it. I cannot operate where I am not valued. You must see that.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Certainly.
- Isobel Crawley: I shall go. I will.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Perhaps it would be best.
- Isobel Crawley: I repeat. I mean it.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: I'm sure you do. And so do I.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Is it true they're fed from our kitchens?
- Daisy Robinson: Only the stuff the army gives.
- Mrs. Patmore: That's right. We only use the food the army pays for and all the men have served their country.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: [pause] In future, I would prefer it if you would use food paid for by the house. I don't want the army to accuse us of mismanagement.
- Sarah O'Brien: You mean you're going to let them get away with it?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Oh more than that. I'm going to help them and so are you. Molesley, if you bring that table across we can split the food and form two lines and it will go faster.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: [after walking in on Daily, Mrs. Patmore, Molesely and Mrs. Bird preparing to serve food to indigent former soldiers] May we come in?
- Mrs. Patmore: Your ladyship... what a surprise.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: O'Brien seemed to think that you and Mrs Bird were engaged in a commercial venture of some sort, so I came to see for myself.
- Mrs. Bird: [indignantly] We are not, Your Ladyship!
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: I agree that's not what it looks like.
- Mrs. Patmore: We feed these men once a week and I'm not ashamed of it. I'll be back before luncheon at the big house.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: I'm sure. But is it true they are fed from our kitchens?
- Daisy Robinson: Only the stuff the army gives. They are soldiers.
- Sarah O'Brien: What did I tell you?
- Mrs. Patmore: Daisy's right. We only use the food the army pay for, and all the men have served their country.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: In future, I would prefer it if you would use food paid for by the house. I don't want the army to accuse us of mismanagement.
- Sarah O'Brien: You mean you're going to let them get away with it?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Oh, more than that. I'm going to help them - and so are you.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Cora tells me Matthew's gone missing. Is that true?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: There's no proof of anything yet.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I see. Well, I need more than that to make me anxious.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: I'm glad you would be anxious.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Of course, I would be. We're used to Matthew now. God knows who the next heir will be! Probably a chimney sweep from Solihull.
- Isobel Crawley: [to Cora] It would be foolish to accuse you of being unprofessional since you've never had a profession in your life.
- Ethel Parks: ...I'm ready for a new adventure, and I don't care who hears me.
- Sarah O'Brien: Well, you know what they say - be careful what you wish for.
- Lady Sybil Crawley: Branson, there's something you ought to know. I've told Mary.
- Tom Branson: I see. Well, that's me finished, then - and without a reference.
- Lady Sybil Crawley: No, she's not like that. You don't know her. She wouldn't give us away.
- Tom Branson: But she won't encourage us.
- Lady Sybil Crawley: No. Why are you smiling? I thought you'd be angry.
- Tom Branson: Because that's the first time you've ever spoken about "us".
- Lady Edith Crawley: Ethel, have you nothing to do?
- Major Charles Bryant: I was keeping her talking. You mustn't blame her.
- Lady Edith Crawley: [Firmly] I don't.
- Lady Edith Crawley: The men are putting on a concert.
- Isobel Crawley: Can I help?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Edith has it under control.
- Lady Edith Crawley: I do if Mary's willing.
- Lady Mary Crawley: [Reluctantly] Oh, all right. One song and that's your lot.
- Isobel Crawley: What time is Dr Clarkson's round?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: It's already happened.
- Isobel Crawley: Without me? Why? I'm not very late.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: We didn't see the need to wait.
- Mrs. Hughes: [walking in on Ethel and Major Bryant "in bed" in the storage room] Ethel!
- Major Charles Bryant: We were only...
- Mrs. Hughes: I know precisely what you were doing, Major. I may not be a woman of the world, but I don't live in a sack!
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Mrs Hughes, I need to steal you for a minute. I have to check the linen books.
- Isobel Crawley: But I went over them last week.
- Mrs. Hughes: Very good milady, I'll get started.
- Isobel Crawley: But the patients are always served their luncheon at half past twelve.
- Mrs. Patmore: Well, today they'll be served at one.
- Lady Mary Crawley: We are talking about Branson, yes. The chauffeur, Branson?
- Lady Sybil Crawley: Oh, how disappointing of you!
- Lady Mary Crawley: I'm just trying to get it straight: you and the chauffeur.
- Lady Sybil Crawley: Oh you know I don't care about all of that.
- Lady Mary Crawley: Darling, don't be such a baby. This isn't fairyland. What did you think? You'd marry the chauffeur and we'd all come to tea?