Lord Grantham quotes from Downton Abbey

Is Granny Violet a Red Indian?

Why on Earth do you say that?

Granny (Cora) said she was on the warpath.

If this is it, just know I have loved you very, very much.

This isn't it, darling. I won't let this be it.

Don't reprimand me, Mama. I think the new system will be better, and I haven't got time to be diplomatic.

Don't you think I have enough things to worry about?

It's better we should be honest. There've been too many secrets. Let's have no more of them.

If you mean Marigold, that's settled, and you know I am sorry, now let us concentrate on Robert.

Isobel Crawley

Even Elizabeth Bennet wanted to see what Pemberley was like inside.

A decision that caused her a great deal of embarrassment, if I remember the novel correctly.

Bertie Pelham

You've probably thought of this, but I'd place someone--maybe a servant--in each room the public will enter. Just to keep an eye on things.

Lady Mary Crawley

Literally.

Tom Branson

I think that's a good idea.

Carson, can you sort it out?

Of course, my lady. I understand it's only the ground floor.

Lady Mary Crawley

Not too much of that. They'll start in the small library, then through the big library, into the painting room, the drawing room, the smoking room, the great hall, in and out of the dining room, and back outside.

Bertie Pelham

Rope off across the staircases in the back wing. Who are the guides?

Tom Branson

Do we need guides? Can't they just have a look and leave it at that?

Bertie Pelham

I don't think so. Not if you want them to go away happy, and leave behind what's not theirs. Who knows about the history of the house?

Lady Edith Crawley

Only our librarian...but he's away.

Bertie Pelham

You'll have to fake it. Lady Mary, Edith, Mr. Branson--

Tom Branson

Not me. I don't know a thing. I'll sell tickets, but that's it.

Bertie Pelham

Well then, Lady Grantham. You and your daughters can take parties of ten each with no more than 30 in the house at any one time.

Lady Edith Crawley

Crikey.

Heavens. I feel like the Belgians waiting for the invasion.

Lady Mary Crawley

Or the monkeys in a zoo.

With her magazine, I think she could develop into one of the interesting women of the day.

You mustn't make him wait forever.

Lady Edith Crawley

I love him. I'd accept him in a trice if weren't for Marigold.

You say he'll let you keep her.

Lady Edith Crawley

That's not the problem.

What is?

Lady Edith Crawley

If I stay silent, there's a lie at the heart of my marriage. But if I tell him the truth, will I ruin it?

Edith, you're a grown woman and I can't force you, but you cannot be married to a man and leave him out of a secret like this. It's not possible. And you won't be happy.

Lady Edith Crawley

How happy am I now?

Lady Rosamund Painswick

I won't hear a word against Cora. Mama is being impossible.

I was only going to say, I wish Cora wouldn't take it heart. Mama has exhausted my patience this time.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

But she did give you Teo.

True. I forgive her everything.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Do you think he will marry Edith? If he learns about Marigold?

I just don't want her to be hurt.

For poor old Edith, who couldn’t even make her dolls do what she wanted, it is rather wonderful

The estate's safe in Mary's hands with Henry and Tom to help her. Edith has risen from the cinders in the hearth to be kissed by her very own Prince Charming. What more can we ask?

A long and happy life together, just we two, to watch the children grow. That's all I want.

And why not? We never know what's coming, of course. Who does? But I'd say we have a good chance.