Lady Rosamund Painswick quotes from Downton Abbey

There's nothing like an English summer, is there?

Lady Mary Crawley

Except an English winter.

Well, Rosamund, I'm afraid your meddling has cost Mary the only decent offer she'll ever get.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

I'm sorry, Mama, but you know me. I have to say what I think.

Why? Nobody else does.

Edith

I'm not even sure which frightens me most: What may have happened to Michael or the baby.

What do you propose to do?

Edith

It's...hard to say the words. But...I've decided to get rid of it.

How terrible that is to hear.

Edith

Please don't pretend you won't be relieved when I do.

Rosamund

I will support you whatever you decide. Just as Cora will and Robert.

Edith

That sounds like a speech from The Second Mrs. Tanquerary but you don't mean a word of it.

Rosamund

I do.

Edith

So I'd be welcome in your drawing room, would I? "Have you met my niece and her charming bastard?"

Rosamund

I refuse to be shocked.

Edith

It's not that I don't love him, you know. I do love him and I would have loved his baby. Bt I just can't see over the top of this.

Rosamund

No.

Edith

I don't want to be an outcast. Not some person people never talk about. Sybil might have brought it off but not me.

Rosamund

I can see that.

Edith

I can't go back to the nursery. Not with Mary's son and Sybil's daughter playing there. I can't do that. I won't be able to do that.

Lady Rose McClare

What's a group noun for suitors?

What do you think, a desire?

Lady Rosamund Painswick

A desire of suitors. Very good.

Lady Mary Crawley

If you're going to talk nonsense, I have better things to do.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Edith, should you be doing this?

Lady Edith Crawley

Why? What are you afraid of? That I'll lose the baby?

Lady Edith Crawley

But what about his child? Doesn't she have some rights?

Lady Rosamund Painswick

his child is not his child anymore. She belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder, and lives in Geneva with the rest of her family.

Lady Edith Crawley

That's all very well saying that, but it doesn't change anything.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Only because you won't let it.

What do you mean a man's opened a colony in Essex?

Not that sort of colony, Mama. It's for people who want to take all their clothes off.

In Essex? Isn't it terribly damp?

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Would that make a difference?

Well yes, if you had no clothes on.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

I'm afraid you've read somewhere that rudeness in old age is amusing, which is quite wrong, you know.

We both know you are not leaving my house until I learn the truth. So shall I have a bed made up for you here, or are you doing to tell me now?

I've been awake the whole night. There's only one thing we can say. We have to tell Cora.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Well, isn't that rather a betrayal?

If anything happens to Edith and Cora learns later we knew all along, she would never forgive us. And I wouldn't blame her. You see, as a mother it is her right.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

But you don't plan to tell Robert? He is Edith's father.

He's a man. Men don't have rights.

I'll never forget her (Lady Sybil). Her kindness changed me life.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

What a lovely way to remember her.

Tom Branson

She was a lovely person.

Lady Mary Crawley

[immensely moved] Darling Sybil.

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.

Lady Rosamund Painswick

What do you think makes the English the way we are?

Opinions differ. Some say our history. But I blame the weather.