Lady Violet: Mary needs more than a handsome smile and a hand on a gear stick.Lord Grantham: I'm surprised you know what a gear stick is.
Lady Violet: I know more than you think.
Lady Violet: What sort of Talbot is he?
Lady Shackleton: A Shrewsbury but nowhere near the earldom. Forty strong men would have to drop dead.
Lady Violet: Nothing is impossible...
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Lady Shackleton: How can I present myself as an expert when I don't know the facts.
Lady Violet: It's never stopped me!
Lady Violet: I haven't been into the kitchens for...oh, at least 20 years.
Isobel: Have you got your passport?
Tom: It hasn't changed much since your day.
Lady Violet: I only know I shall need Ariadne's thread to find my way out!
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Lady Violet: I presume in the future we can look forward to women field marshals. And a woman pope!
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Lady Rosamund: Mrs. Carson! It's like Jane Eyre asking to be called Mrs. Rochester!
Lady Mary: I hope this means you are boiling up to make a pass before we're done.
Henry Talbot: Probably. But will you accept?
Lady Mary: No, but I shall enjoy the process enormously!
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Lady Mary: Do you know, I couldn't be less interested in cars if I took a pill to achieve it.
Henry Talbot: Well, that's because you haven't been taught about them...properly.
Mrs. Patmore: I wonder if Karl Marx might finish the liver pate...
Mrs. Patmore: You couldn't be harder on those potatoes if you wanted to make them confess to spying!
