- Lady Edith Crawley: [re Isobel] I suppose she is entitled to put up an argument.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Of course she is. She's just not allowed to *win* it.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I haven't been in the kitchen for at least twenty years!
- Isobel Crawley: Have you got your passport?
- Mrs. Patmore: [to Daisy] You couldn't be harder on those potatoes if you wanted them to confess to spying.
- Gwen Harding: I never had any higher education.
- Lady Mary Crawley: Who did? All we were taught was French, prejudice and dance-steps.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: For years, I have watched governments take control of our lives and their argument is always the same fewer costs, greater efficiency. But the result is the same too. Less control by the people, more control by the state, until the individual's own wishes count for nothing.
- Lady Shackleton: How can I present myself if I don't know the facts...
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: It never stopped *me*!
- [talking about Edith's plan to hire a woman editor]
- Isobel Crawley: That was nice of you, your praise of Edith's plan.
- Lady Mary Crawley: A monkey will type out a Bible if you leave it long enough.
- Lady Shackleton: [re: Henry Talbot's thin chance at peerage] Forty strong men would have to drop dead.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Well, nothing is impossible.
- Daisy Mason: I wonder what Mrs. Hughes is up to right now.
- Mrs. Patmore: I suppose she's solved the mysteries of life, which is more than I...
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Really, Robert, you paint me as such a schemer.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: No one has sharper eyes than a loving son.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: You read that somewhere!
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Why do you think I can never make anything up?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Mama is on old intriguer. She will use tears or terror in equal measure.
- Lady Mary Crawley: [to Henry Talbot] I couldn't be less interested in cars if I took a pill to achieve it.
- Tom Branson: I bought some sandwiches and ate in the car.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: You're a braver man than I, Gunga Din.
- Lady Mary Crawley: I hope this means you're boiling up to make a pass before we're done?
- Henry Talbot: Probably. But will you accept?