Downton Abbey
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Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the Edwardian era in the fictional estate of Downton, Yorkshire. It was created and principally written by Julian Fellowes, and first aired on the ITV1 network on 26 September 2010. The second season premiered in the UK on 18 September 2011.
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[edit] Season 1
[edit] Episode 1
- Anna: Once in my life, I'd like to sleep until I woke up natural.
- Mrs. Hughes: Oh, heavens, girl, you're building a fire, not inventing it.
- Lady Edith: [About the Titanic] I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable.
- Robert Crawley, Lord Grantham: Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it; so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks.
- Cora Crawley, Lady Grantham: Of course, I have never understood why this estate must go to whoever inherits your title.
- Robert Crawley, Lord Grantham: My dear, I don't make the law.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: I'm very sorry about poor Patrick, of course. He was a nice boy.
- Cora Crawley, Lady Grantham: We were all so fond of him...
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: But I never cared for James. He was too like his mother, and a nastier woman never drew breath.
- Cora Crawley, Lady Grantham: Are we to be friends, then?
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: We are allies, my dear, which can be a good deal more effective.
- Lord Grantham: You do seem very well informed on this family's private affairs. But you ought, perhaps, to know that I do not intend to fight the entail--not any part of it.
- Duke of Crowborough: You can't be serious.
- Lord Grantham: It pains me to say it, but I am.
- Duke of Crowborough: You'll give up your entire estate--your wife's money into the bargain--to a perfect stranger? You won't even put up a fight?
- Lord Grantham: I hope he proves to be perfect, but I rather doubt it.
- Duke of Crowborough: A very odd thing to joke about.
- Lord Grantham: No odder than this conversation.
[edit] Episode 2
- Matthew Crawley: Mother, Lord Grantham has made the unwelcome discovery that his heir is a middle class lawyer, and the son of a middle class doctor.
- Isobel Crawley: Upper middle class!
- Lady Grantham: It's a cottage hospital, of course, but quite well equipped.
- Isobel Crawley: Who pays for it?
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: Oh good--let's talk about money.
- Lord Grantham: My father gave the building and an endowment to run it. In a way, he set up his own memorial.
- Isobel Crawley: But how splendid!
- Lord Grantham: And Mr. Lloyd George's new insurance measures will help.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: Please don't speak that man's name; we are about to eat.
- William: [About Mr. Carson, the Butler] I'll bet he comes from a line of butlers that goes back to the Conqueror.
- Lord Grantham: [About Matthew Crawley, Lord Grantham's new heir] I thought you didn't like him?
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: So what? I have plenty of friends I don't like.
- Lord Grantham: You do not love the place yet.
- Matthew Crawley: Well, obviously, it's...
- Lord Grantham: No, you don't love it. You see a million bricks that may crumble, a thousand gutters and pipes that may block and leak, and stone that will crack in the frost.
- Matthew Crawley: But you don't?
- Lord Grantham: I see my life's work.
- Lord Grantham: I'll tell you what is going to happen. When I have given you twenty Pounds, you will leave Downton, immediately, and we will never set eyes on you again.
- Charles Grigg: I'll have to see about that.
- Lord Grantham: If you return to this area, I will personally ensure your conviction for theft and blackmail.
- Charles Grigg: Just a minute...
- Lord Grantham: You will serve between five and ten years in His Majesty's custody.
- Charles Grigg: You think you're such a big man, don't you? Just because you're a lord, you think you can do what you like with me.
- Lord Grantham: I think it, because it is true.
- Charles Grigg: You won't always be in charge, you know! The day is coming when your lot will have to toe the line just like the rest of us!
- Lord Grantham: Perhaps, but happily for Carson, that day has not come yet.
[edit] Episode 3
- Mrs. Patmore: Daisy! What's happened to you? I said you could go for a drink of water, not a trip up the Nile!
- Lady Grantham: Apparently, he's bringing a friend with him--an attache at the Turkish embassy--a Mister Kemal Pamuk. He's the son of one of the Sultan's ministers, and he's here for the Albanian talks.
- Lady Mary: And what's that?
- Lady Edith: To create an independent Albania. Don't you read the papers?
- Lady Mary: I'm too busy living a life.
- John Bates: You can change your life if you want to. Sometimes you have to be hard on yourself, but you can change it completely--I know.
- Mrs. Hughes: Mr. Bates, what's the matter?
- John Bates: Nothing, not a thing--I'm fine.
- Mrs. Hughes: Let me help you.
- John Bates: I'm perfectly alright--thank you, Mrs. Hughes.
- Mrs. Hughes: Are you sure? You're as white as a sheet.
- John Bates: It's my wonderful complexion, inherited from my Irish mother.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: Oh, my dears! Is it really true? I can't believe it. Last night he looked so well! Of course, it would happen to a foreigner. It's typical.
- Lady Mary: Don't be ridiculous!
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: I'm not being ridiculous. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house, especially someone they didn't even know.
- Lady Sibyl: Oh, Granny, even the English aren't in control of everything.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: Well I hope we're in control of something, if only ourselves.
- Carson: Even a butler has his favorites, my lady.
[edit] Episode 4
- Lord Grantham: You are my darling daughter, and I love you, hard as it is for an Englishman to say the words...If I had made my own fortune and bought Downton for myself, it should be yours without question. But I did not. My fortune is the work of others, who labored to build a great dynasty. Do I have the right to destroy their work, or impoverish that dynasty? I am a custodian, my dear, not an owner. I must strive to be worthy of the task I have been set.
[edit] Episode 5
- Lord Grantham: Really, Mary, I wish you wouldn't talk like that. There will come a day when someone thinks you mean what you say.
- Matthew Crawley: She's barking up the wrong tree.
- Isobel Crawley: Poor Edith! I hope there's a right tree for her somewhere.
- Lady Sibyl: I need the governess cart tomorrow.
- Lord Grantham: Oh?
- Lady Sibyl: I'm going to Malton.
- Lord Grantham: Oh, don't risk the traffic in Malton. Not now every Tom, Dick, and Harry seems to have a motor.
- Lady Sibyl: Hardly.
- Lord Grantham: The last time I was there, there were five cars parked in the marketplace, and another three drove past while I was waiting.
- Lady Mary: It's easy to be generous when you have nothing to lose.
- Daisy: I was only trying yo help.
- Mrs. Patmore: Oh, Judas was only trying to help I suppose, when he brought the Roman soldiers to the Garden !
- Lady Sibyl: What would happen if one of the maids found out your room is empty ?
- Gwen: Oh it would only be Anna. And she wouldn't give me away, she's like a sister. She'd never betray me.
- Lady Sibyl: Well then she's not like my sisters.
- Lady Grantham: No one ever warns you about bringing up daughters. You think it's going to be like Little Women, and instead they're at each others' throats from dawn till dusk.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: You are quite wonderful, the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal.
- Isobel Crawley: I take that as a compliment.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: I must have said it wrong.
- Lady Mary: You know what all work and no play did for Jack.
- Matthew Crawley: You think I’m a dull boy anyway, don’t you? I play, too. I’m coming up for dinner tonight. I suspect I’m there to balance the numbers. Is it in aid of anything?
- Lady Mary: Not that I know of. Just a couple of dreary neighbours, that’s all.
- Matthew Crawley: Maybe I'll shine in comparison.
- Lady Mary: Maybe you wil...
- Lady Mary: How many times am I to be ordered to marry the man sitting next to me at dinner?
- Lady Grantham: As many times as it takes.
- Lady Mary: Mama, the world is changing.
- Lady Grantham: Not that much. And not fast enough for you.
- Mrs. Patmore: What the eye can’t see, the heart won’t grieve over.
- Anna: I love you, Mr Bates. I know it’s not ladylike to say it, but I’m not a lady, and I don’t pretend to be.
- Mr. Bates: You are a lady to me. And I never knew a finer one.
- Lady Edith: And I think she who loves last loves the longest.
[edit] Episode 6
- Branson: Politicians often can't recognize the changes that are inevitable.
- Lady Mary: I was only going to say that Sibyl is entitled to her opinions.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: No, she isn't until she is married--then her husband will tell her what her opinions are.
- Lord Grantham: Poor old Edith; we never seem to talk about her.
- Lady Grantham: I'm afraid Edith will be the one to care for us in our old age.
- Lord Grantham: What a ghastly prospect.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: My poor niece never uses one word when twenty will do.
- Branson: I may be a socialist, but I'm not a lunatic.
- Lady Mary: I'm not sure Papa knows the difference.
[edit] Episode 7
- Lady Rosamond: There's nothing like an English summer, is there?
- Lady Mary: Except an English winter.
- Lady Rosamond: But then, after four seasons, one is less a débutante than a survivor.
- [The newly installed telephone is ringing]
- Mrs. Patmore: Oh my Lord, listen to that! It's like the cry of the banshee!
- John Bates: Hard to believe the clouds are gathering on a day like this.
- Anna: I had to find out the truth.
- John Bates: But you see, you don't know the whole truth--not even now; you know my mother's truth.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: Well, Rosamund, I'm afraid your meddling has cost Mary the only decent offer she'll ever get.
- Lady Rosamund: I'm sorry, Mama, but you know me: I have to say what I think.
- Lady Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess: Why? No one else does.
- Carson: I know you have spirit, my lady, and that's what counts. It's all that counts in the end.
- Lord Grantham: I very much regret to announce that we are at war with Germany.
