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== where to look up quotes? == * http://forums.previously.tv/topic/4772-only-the-best-quotes/ Isobel Crawley and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Isobel Crawley: [about the hospital] Who funds it? :Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Oh good, let's talk about money. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: Of course it would happen to a foreigner. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a constant state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper. Isobel Crawley and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Isobel Crawley: How you hate to be wrong. :Violet: I wouldn't know, I'm not familiar with the sensation. Mary and Cora: :Cora: I hate to lie. :Mary: I'll do it. I don't mind lying. :Mrs. Patmore: Ooh I like that Rudolph Valentino. He makes me shiver all over. :Carson: What a very disturbing thought. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: Oh that's a relief. I hate Greek drama. When everything happens off stage. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: [On womenhood] I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: [On Jazz] Do you think that any of them know what the others are playing? Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: [On raising children] Yes, but it was an hour every day. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: [On being a grand parent] It's the job of grandmothers to interfere! Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: [On technology] First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel.β :Anna: [Thomas's insistence of being referred to as Mr. Barrow] Mr. Stick It Up Your Jumper Isobel Crawley and β¦: :Isobel Crawley: What are our plans keep Isis (the dog) out of the patients area ? :Lord Crawley: Absolutely nothing ! Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and β¦: :Violet: Why the lamentation? You don't have to see him if you don't want. :Isobel: You make it sound so easy. :Violet: There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends - that's the real test. :Daisy: I was rubbish at numbers at school. :Mrs. Patmore: Well all the best people were rubbish at numbers at school. :Lady Shackleton: How's that lovely garden of yours? :Lord Merton: Still lovely, largely because I have the same lovely gardener. Cora and β¦: :Cora: How does it help to answer rudeness with rudeness? :Mrs Patmore: [the king speaking on the radio] Can he hear us? :Daisy: I don't think it works that way. :Carson: Mr. Barrow, you're back. I'm afraid you've missed our luncheon but you're in time to help upstairs. :Mrs. Hughes: Maybe there's something left. :Thomas: Don't bother. I'm not hungry. :Carson: Charming as ever, I see. :Tom: You remember we're meeting Mr. Wavel at three at the corner. :Robert: Very clearly but I don't see the point since I'm not going to agree. Isobel, Rose, Robert, Tom, and Mary: :Isobel: How are your Russians getting on? :Rose: It's so sad. They talk about the old days - dances at the winter palace, picnics on the banks of the Niva - but there are holes in their shoes and they've got no money for food. :Robert: This is where Tom says it serves them right. :Tom: You're correct I don't approve of how things were managed in Russia but I'm still sorry for people who have to make a new life in a foreign land from scratch. :Mary: Honestly, papa, every time you challenge Tom, you sound much more unreasonable than he is. :Robert: Do I? How's your old beau managing, mama? Prince Thingamajig. Edith and Robert: :Edith: Apparently there's a trial going on in Munich of the leader of a group of thugs there. :Robert: I read about this. They wear brown shirts and go around bullying people. The leader tried to start a revolution last year. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Edith: :Violet: I would never suggest anything that is not in your interest. :Edith: In my interest? Or the family's? :Violet: To me they are the same. :Edith: And that is where we differ. Robert and Cora: :Robert: I can't stand that woman. :Cora: No great surprise there. Mrs. Hughes and Sergeant: :Mrs. Hughes: Surely you can't think- :Sergeant: I'm not paid to think, Mrs. Hughes, just to record the facts. Shrimpy, Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Isobel: :Shrimpy: By the way, Susan has written to Annabel to say she's furious that you've all taken me in. :Violet: Oh, dear. Susan has been in a rage since she was playing with her dolls. I am proof against her tantrums. :Isobel: I would rephrase that if you want to stay neutral. :Violet: I won't take sides, it's true, but I don't think I could ever be described as neutral. Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Carson, and Barrow: :Violet: Barrow, are you quite well? Carson, have you been overworking him? :Carson: Not that I'm aware, your ladyship. Mr. Barrow, am I ill-treating you? :Barrow: You are the soul of kindness, Mr. Carson. Rose and Cora: :Rose: I love cocktail parties. :Cora: Me too. You only have to stay forty minutes instead of sitting for seven courses between a deaf landownera and an even deafer major general. Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Patmore: :Mrs. Hughes: Then why did you ask [Carson]? :Mrs. Patmore: Because he's a man, I suppose. :Mrs. Hughes: I'm not sure that's a good enough reason. :Mrs. Patmore: Nor am I now. But I don't want to hurt his feelings. :Mrs. Hughes: I wish men worried about our feelings a quarter as much as we worry about theirs. Mary and Tom: :Mary: Remember, Tom, make the right choice for you and not us. :Tom: You know you're much nicer than a lot of people realize. :Mary: Not always. Blake and Mary: :Blake: I've asked a friend to join us and I want you to behave. :Mary: Why wouldn't I? Edith and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Edith: I didn't tell you because I knew you'd think it was a mistake. :Violet: I suppose it never occured to you that I might be right? Barrow and Bates: :Barrow: I've never felt better. :Bates: You've never looked worse. Prince Igor and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Igor: If Irina were dead, I would as you to run away with me now. :Violet: You can't run away when there's no one left to run away from. Prince Igor: :Igor: You think to be unhappy in a marriage is ill-bred. Hairdresser: :Hairdresser: At least she can carry off [the bob]. Most of them look like bald monkeys. Mary and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Mary: Granny, what do you think? :Violet: Oh, it is you. I thought it was a man wearing your clothes. Mabel: :Mabel: Why turn up looking like a cross between a Vogue fashion plate and a case of dynamite? Charles and Mary: :Charles: You might have allowed [Mabel] to be the first woman. :Mary: Nonsense. I don't believe in letting people win. :Charles: Even if it's in your own interest. Mary: :Mary: Why the song and dance? Edith's gone away. So what? Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: :Violet: When I say we need some air, we need some air. Sir Richard and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and β¦: :Sir Richard: I'll be leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we will be seeing each other again. :Lady Violet: Do you Promise? Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and β¦: :Violet: Don't proclaim your intransigence as if it were a virtue. Mary and Tom: :Mary: It's a dagger in my heart. I don't know what I'll do without you. :Tom: Did you ever think you'd say that when I drove you to your fittings with Madame Swan in Rippon? Mrs. Hughes and Denker: :Mrs. Hughes: And in front of the maids too! :Denker: Well who gives a tinker's cuss about the maids? Denker and Anna: :Denker: I don't think it's right to put on a wedding dress when it's only a blessing. :Anna: Well, she won't wear a veil. Mrs. Hughes: :Mrs. Hughes: You should know, Andy, that you take your life in your hands if you throw in your lot with [Barrow and Denker]. Robert and Edith: :Robert: Look, it's Tony and Mary. They make a handsome couple. :Edith: Give it up, papa. It's a pipe dream. Denker: :Denker: It was a funny marriage. No proper service, no veil. You'd have thought one of them was divorced. [[Category:ToBeExported]]
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