- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [sarcastically] You are quite wonderful the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal!
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: I take that as a compliment.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [drolly] I must have said it wrong.
- Daisy Robinson: I was only trying to help!
- Mrs. Patmore: Oh, l - Judas was only trying to help, I suppose, when he brought the Roman soldiers to the Garden?
- Lady Mary Crawley: You know what all work and no play did for Jack?
- Matthew Crawley: But you think I'm a dull boy anyway, don't you. I play too. I'm coming up for dinner tonight.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Really, Mary, I wish you wouldn't talk like that. There will come a day when someone thinks you really mean what you say.
- Lady Mary Crawley: It can't come soon enough.
- Lady Mary Crawley: Poor darling!. She had to walk for miles. I don't think I'd have got down however lame the horse.
- Lady Edith Crawley: No, I don't believe you would.
- Lady Mary Crawley: How many times am I to be ordered to marry the man sitting next to me at dinner?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: As many times as it takes.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Mary can be such a child.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: What do you mean, darling?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: She thinks if you put a toy down it'll still be sitting there when you want to play with it again.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: [referring to Mary] She ought to marry. Talk to her.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: She never listens to me. If she did, she'd marry Matthew.