Lady Sybil Crawley quotes from Downton Abbey

How dare you! How dare you obey in this way!

Robert can we do this in the morning? Sybil needs rest.

Are you so knowledgeable about the great world that my instructions are to be set as nothing!

Lady Sybil Crawley

Papa, I'm sorry I disobeyed you! But I'm interested! I'm political! I have opinions!

Of course I blame Branson!

Lady Mary Crawley

I don't think that's fair.

We had none it! None of it until he set foot in our house! I suppose I should thank God he hasn't burned the place down over our heads!

Lady Sybil Crawley

Branson didn't know anything about it until we arrived there!

He leaves tonight!

Lady Sybil Crawley

If you punish Branson, I'll never speak to you again- Never!

Lady Mary Crawley

I really don't think this is Branson's fault, truly, Papa.

Lady Sybil Crawley

Blame me.

I do blame you!

I'm not going to fight.

Lady Sybil Crawley

You'll have to.

I will not. I'm going to be a conscientious objector.

Lady Sybil Crawley

They'll put you in prison.

I'd rather prison than the Dardanelles.

Lady Sybil Crawley

When will you tell them?

In my own good time.

Lady Sybil Crawley

I don't understand.

I'll go to the medical. I'll report for duty. And when on parade, I'll march out front and I'll shout it, loud and clear. And if that doesn't make the newspapers, then I'm a monkey's uncle.

Lady Sybil Crawley

Why are you smiling? I thought you'd be angry.

Because that's the first time you've ever spoken about "us."

Lady Sybil Crawley

Doesn't it feel odd to have the rooms back?

Lady Edith Crawley

And only us to sit in them. I suppose we'll get used to it.

Lady Sybil Crawley

I don't want to get used to it.

Lady Edith Crawley

What do you mean?

Lady Sybil Crawley

I know what it is to work now. To have a full day, to be tired in a good way. I don't want to start dress fittings or paying calls or standing behind the guns.

Lady Edith Crawley

But how does one escape all that?

Lady Sybil Crawley

I think I've found a way to escape.

Lady Edith Crawley

Nothing too drastic, I hope.

Lady Sybil Crawley

It is drastic. There's no going back once I've done it, but that's what I want. No going back.

Lady Edith Crawley

I don't want to go back, either.

Lady Sybil Crawley

Then don't. You're far nicer than you were before the war, you know.

You're very late. Won't they worry?

Lady Sybil Crawley

They're all so excited, they won't care where I am.

I'm pleased. I like Mr. Matthew.

Lady Sybil Crawley

He announced at dinner that he wants to get married at Downton. Somehow, it made me feel more than ever that the war is really over, and it's time to move forward.

Do you mean you've made your decision?

Lady Sybil Crawley

Yes. My answer is, that I'm ready to travel. And you're my ticket. To get away from this house, away from this life--

Me?

Lady Sybil Crawley

No, Uncle Tom Cobley. [both laugh]

I'm sorry. But I've waited so long for those words, I can't believe I'm hearing them. You won't mind burning your bridges?

Lady Sybil Crawley

Mind? Fetch me the matches! [Branson leans forward but stops] Yes, you can kiss me, but that is all until everything is settled.

For now, God knows it's enough that I can kiss you. [they kiss]

What do you mean "you knew"?!

Lady Mary Crawley

I hoped it would blow over! I didn't want to break up the family when Sybil might still wake up!

And all this time you been driving me about, bowing and scrapping, and seducing my daughter behind my back?!

Tom Branson

I don't bow and scrape! And I've not seduced anyone! Give your daughter some credit for knowing her own mind!

How dare you speak like that to me! You will leave at once!

Lady Sybil Crawley

Oh, Papa.

This is a folly! A ridiculous, juvenile madness!

Sybil, what do you have in mind?

Mama, this is hardly--

No. She must have something in mind. Otherwise she would not have summoned him here tonight.

Lady Sybil Crawley

Matthew! Mary!

Lady Mary Crawley

Is it Mama?!

That's what's so--it's Lavinia!