Editing Downton Abbey

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== Season 5 ==
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=== Episode #5.1 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3325518
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* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&season=1

=== Episode #5.2 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3666186
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* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e02

=== Episode #5.3 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3689408
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* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e03

Violet and Isobel:
:Violet: Oh, what is the latest from your ageing Romeo?
:Isobel: If it's of interest, I haven't heard anything from him ~ since you and I last met.
:Violet: Oh, how disappointing.
:Isobel: To you, perhaps. Not especially to me. By the way, how is Spratt?
:Violet: He's well, I think. Why do you ask?
:Isobel: He wasn't there to open the door. I wondered if he might be ill.
:Violet: Oh, no. He's not ill. He's in Liverpool. His niece got married yesterday and Spratt had to take her down the aisle.
:Isobel: Oh. It seems unlikely to think of Spratt with a private life.
:Violet: Hm. Yes. Unlikely and extremely inconvenient.
:Isobel: But you can't begrudge him that. Servants are human beings too.
:Violet: Yes. But preferably only on their days off.

Violet and Spratt:
:Violet: I hope you're not too tired after your exertions.
:Spratt: Ooh, M'Lady. I'm not tired exactly.
:Violet: Oh, good. I'm glad if the wedding was a success.
:Spratt: Oh. The wedding was a success. Yes.
:Violet: Spratt, I have told you before, I do not appreciate a man of mystery. If you have something to say, say it.
:Spratt: I would, Your Ladyship, but it may not be quite right for me to tell.
:Violet: Well, if that is the case then do no say it. Do you have some other business?
:Spratt: Only that it may not be mine to tell, but it is, in a way, yours.
:Violet: You're testing me, Spratt. And I warn you, being tested does not bring out the best in me.
:Spratt: No, Your Ladyship.
:Violet: I will not repeat myself. Either impart this piece of information, if you can empower yourself to do so, or go.
:Spratt: Very well. I hope Lady Mary enjoyed her time in Liverpool.
:Violet: What?
:Spratt: I was standing outside the Grand Hotel this morning, M'Lady, when I saw her come out with her suitcases. She was accompanied by Lord Gillingham who had clearly also been staying in the hotel.
:Violet: Well, yes. They were both staying there. They were attending an informal conference of northern landowners. Lord Gillingham thought Lady Mary might derive benefit from it.
:Spratt: So you knew about it?
:Violet: Of course I did. Why? What do you imagine you were witnessing?
:Spratt: Well
:Violet: Nothing vulgar, I hope! Nothing beneath the dignity of a butler of this house.
:Spratt: Oh. Nothing of that sort, M'Lady.
:Violet: I'm glad to hear it. Now, if you'll be good enough to let me drink my brandy in peace.
:Spratt: Your Ladyship.

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, to Lady Mary Crawley:
:Violet: I hope his arrival means you intend to make it public.
:Mary: Darling, granny, you know how much I value your advice…
:Violet: Which means you intend to ignore it.
:Mary: The point is I won't be hurried into anything. Not by you or him.
:Violet: But if you weren't certain, why on earth did you go to bed with him? Well, in my day a lady was incapable of feeling physical attraction until she had been instructed to do so by her mama.
:Mary: I don't believe that.
:Violet: Seriously, my dear, you have to take control of your feelings before they take control of you.

=== Episode #5.4 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3714404
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* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e04

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Isobel Crawley:
:Violet: Hope is a tease designed to prevent us accepting reality.
:Isobel: You only say that to sound clever.
:Violet. I know. You should try it.

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Isobel Crawley:
:Isobel: Lord Grantham sounds rather more subtle than I'd realized.
:Violet: Well, like all Englishmen of his type, he hid his qualities beneath a thick blanket of convention so I didn't see who he really was at first.
:Isobel: It's lucky you found out in time...If it was in time.
:Violet: I forget.

Robert and Violet:
:Robert: He flatters her. He keeps asking her opinion on everything.
:Violet: Well, don't you ever ask her opinion?
:Robert: Of course I do. Sometimes.

Robert Crawley, Sarah Bunting, Mary:
:Robert: Obviously, the lessons have proved successful. I'm pleased to hear it.
:Sarah: Are you, Lord Grantham?
:Mary: Oh, for heaven's sake, let it go. You've proved your point.
:Sarah: Have I, though? All I've proved is that Lord Grantham would like us serfs to stay in our allotted place from cradle to grave.
:Robert (angrily): There is only one thing I would like and that I would like passionately. It is to see you leave this house and never come back! (He leaves the room)
:Mary: Happy now?

Violet and Edith:
:Violet: Edith, dear, are you still writing that very interesting column?
:Edith: Yes, Granny.
:Violet: Oh, you must show me some of them. What is the latest one about?
:Edith: What are they all about? The way the world is changing.

=== Episode #5.5 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3696132
* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e05

Rose, Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Robert, and Rosamund:
:Rose: I say, some man has opened a nudist colony at Wickford on Essex.
:Violet: What do you mean a man's opened a colony in Essex?
:Robert: Not that sort of colony, mama. It's for people who want to take all their clothes off.
:Violet: In Essex? Isn't it terribly damp?
:Rosamund: Would that make a difference?
:Violet: Well, yes, if you had no clothes on.

Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Patmore:
:Mrs. Hughes: Would you like me to leave?
:Mrs. Patmore: I'd love to think I have a secret that was too indelicate for a lady's ear but I haven't.

Rosamund to Edith:
:Rosamund: I gave up ten months of my life to make sure she came safely into the world.

Rosamund and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
:Rosamund: Well, it is very hard-
:Violet: Rosamund, you are addressing your mother, not the Committee of the Women's Institute.
:Rosamund: I'm afraid you've read somewhere that rudeness in old age is amusing, which is quite wrong, you know.

Robert and Tom:
:Robert: I would only say this, Tom: In your time here you've learned both sides of the argument, befriended people you'd once have seen as enemies.
:Tom: That's true.
:Robert: You should be proud.
:Robert: Five years ago, would you have believed you could be friendly with my mother?
:Tom: (CHUCKLES) I'm not sure I'd have believed it five minutes ago.
:Robert: Don't make nothing of what you've achieved.
:Robert: That's all.

Violet and Dr Clarkson talking about Isobel Crawley and Lord Merton:
:Dr Clarkson: May I ask to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?
:Violet: I'll get straight down to it.
:Violet: You know how Lord Merton likes to display his interest in all things medical? At least, he likes to, when in the company of Mrs Crawley.
:Dr Clarkson: Your confidence is a compliment.
:Violet: I confide in you, Dr Clarkson, because I must.
:Violet: Only you can help.
:Dr Clarkson: That is more flattering still.
:Violet: It's the family's fault, really.
:Violet: We've trained her in our ways, and the earnest and intellectual 'bonne bourgeoise' has been replaced by a rather less definable figure.
:Dr Clarkson: Are you saying you liked her better when she was more middle-class?
:Violet: No, I wouldn't go that far.
:Dr Clarkson: But you understood her better.
:Violet: Precisely.
:Violet: Now I do not know who she is.
:Violet: I do not know what it is she wants.
:Dr Clarkson: Well, there are many who wouldn't be puzzled by the desire to marry a lord and live in a palace.
:Dr Clarkson: Can I ask you a personal question? 
:Violet: I've lived through great wars and my share of grief.
:Violet: I think I can manage an impertinent question from a doctor.
:Dr Clarkson: Do you perhaps resent the idea of a change of position for Mrs Crawley? 
:Violet: I'm sorry.
:Violet: I do not quite grasp your question.
:Violet: It bewilders me.
:Violet: But I will say this: Do you wish to see her live a life devoid of industry and moral worth?
:Dr Clarkson: I do not.
:Violet: And when the glitter is tarnished, you know, what then? A hollow existence in a large and draughty house, with a man who bores her to death.
:Dr Clarkson: It's a terrible prospect.
:Violet: So our duty is clear.

=== Episode #5.6 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3810550
* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e06

=== Episode #5.7 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3810556
* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e07

=== Episode #5.8 (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3810558
* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e08

=== Episode #5.9=christmas special (2014) ===
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3962976
* http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e91

== 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.”

:Anna: [Thomas's insistence of being referred to as Mr. Barrow] Mr. Stick It Up Your Jumper

Isobel Crawley and …:
: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 …:
: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 …:
: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.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Isobel:
:Violet: I do apologize.
:Isobel: Oh, don't. I'm enjoying it immensely.
:Violet: That's what I was afraid of.

Hairdresser:
:Hairdresser: At least she can carry off [the bob]. Most of them look like bald monkeys.

Dr. Clarkson:
:Dr. Clarkson: Harsh reality is better than false hope.

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.

Robert and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
:Robert: Maybe it would be good for [Edith] to have a bit of time on her own to think.
:Violet: All this endless thinking. It's very overrated. I blame the war. Before 1914, nobody thought about anything at all.

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.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Rosamund:
:Violet: We have to tell Cora.
:Rosamund: Well isn't that rather a betrayal?
:Violet: If anything happens to Edith and Cora learns later we knew all along, she would never forgive us. And I wouldn't blame her. You see, as a mother, it is her right.
:Rosamund: But you don't plan to tell Robert. He is Edith's father.
:Violet: He's a man. Men don't have rights.

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.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, to Mary:
:Violet: My dear, a lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears.

Sir Richard and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and …:
: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 …:
:Violet: Don't proclaim your intransigence as if it were a virtue.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Lord Sinderby:
:Violet: Is it a long list, Lord Sinderby? The things you disapprove of?
:Sinderby: No, as long as I can steer clear of card sharps and undercooked fish.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
:Violet: Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Barrow and Miss Denker:
:Barrow: Why are you bullying him, Miss Denker? Can't you pick on someone your own age?
:Denker: He'll have fun when he gets there.
:Barrow: Maybe, but I suspect you're a bad influence all the same.
:Denker: Then I suspect we have something in common, Mr. Barrow.
:Barrow: Cheeky!

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?

Susan and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
:Susan: I don't believe it. Is that it? Am I just expected to be a good loser?
:Violet: It's too late for that, my dear, far too late.

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.

Susan and Rose:
:Susan: Whatever I said or did was done from love.
:Rose: I'm afraid we must have different definitions of the word.

Lady Anville and Cora:
:Lady Anville: I do feel for you. It must be very trying but I so admire you for putting on a good face.
:Cora: I wonder if you remember that my father was Jewish.
:Lady Anville: Oh. I'm afraid I, that is, how interesting.

Denker:
:Denker: It was a funny marriage. No proper service, no veil. You'd have thought one of them was divorced.

Mary:
:Mary: Now that Lord Sinderby and Lady Flincher both have a reason to look down on the other, that should keep them quiet.