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Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Anna Smith, Head Housemaid

"I love you, Mr. Bates! And I know it’s not ladylike to say so, but I’m not a lady and I don’t pretend to be."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Lady Sybil Crawley

"No one ever learned anything from a governess except for French, and how to curtsy."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Lady Mary Crawley

"I hope you know that really smart people sleep in separate rooms."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Lady Grantham, the Dowager Countess

"What's a 'weekend?'"

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Lady Edith Crawley and Lady Mary Crawley

Lady Edith: (in reference to Lary Mary's beau) "So he slipped the hook"

Lady Mary: "At least I'm not fishing with no bait"

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Mrs Patmore, Cook

(to Daisy, the kichen maid) "Daisy, what’s happened to you? I said you could go for a drink of water, not a trip up the Nile."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Cora, the Countess of Grantham

(to her daughter, Lady Mary) "The point is, when you refused Matthew, you were an earl’s daughter with an unsullied reputation. Now, you are damaged goods."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Sarah O'Brien, the Countess of Grantham's Lady's maid, and Thomas Barrow, First Footman

Thomas: (talking about Matthew Crawley, heir to the estate) "Are we to treat him as the heir?"

O'Brien: "Are we heck as like! A doctor's son from Manchester? He'll be lucky if he gets a civil word out of me."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Lady Grantham, the Dowager Countess

"I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Robert, the Earl of Grantham

(about his daughter) "Mary can be such a child. She thinks that if you put a toy down, it’ll still be sitting there when you want to play with it again."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Lady Rosamind: "There's nothing like an English summer, is there?"

Lady Mary Crawley: "Except an English winter."

Classic quotes from Downton Abbey

Lady Sybil Crawley

Lady Mary Crawley: "Sybil is entitled to her opinions."

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: "No. She isn't until she is married, then her husband will tell her what her opinions are."