- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: One forgets about parenthood. The on-and-on-ness of it.
- Isobel Crawley: Were you a very involved mother with Robert and Rosamund?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Does it surprise you?
- Isobel Crawley: A bit. I'd imagined them surrounded by nannies and governesses, being starched and ironed to spend an hour with you after tea.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Yes, but it was an hour *every day*.
- Isobel Crawley: [momentarily lost for words] I see, yes. How tiring!
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: [Commenting on Barrow's attempt to kiss James] I mean if I shouted blue murder every time someone tried to kiss me at Eaton I'd have gone hoarse in a month.
- Tom Branson: You won't make a gentleman of me, you know. You an teach me to fish to ride to shoot, but I'll still be an Irish mick in my heart.
- Matthew Crawley: So I should hope.
- [Carson has questioned Thomas about his attempt to kiss James, which Thomas has not denied, and now he reaches his decision]
- Charles Carson: It's time to draw a line under this whole unfortunate episode.
- Thomas Barrow: So I go out of the window.
- Charles Carson: I cannot hide that I find your situation revolting, but whether or not you believe me, I am not entirely unsympathetic. You have been twisted by nature into something foul. And even I can see that you did not ask for it. I think it better that you resign quietly, citing the excuse that Mr Bates returned. I will write a perfectly acceptable reference, and you'll find that there's nothing about it that's hard to explain.
- Thomas Barrow: I see.
- [Thomas turns as he is about to leave the room]
- Thomas Barrow: I am not foul, Mr. Carson. I am not the same as you, but I am not foul.
- Charles Carson: Yes, well... We've spoken enough on this subject.
- Isobel Crawley: [re: Rose's visit] I couldn't manage an 18 year old, not these days - I wouldn't know what she was talking about !
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: My husband was a great traveler, so I've spent many happy evenings without understanding a word. The thing is to keep smiling and *never* look as if you disapprove.
- [Matthew, Edith and Lady Rosamund Painswick follow Rose to a jazz club in Soho, London]
- Matthew Crawley: This is like the outer circle from Dante's Inferno!
- Charles Carson: [catching O'Brien spying] Come along, Miss O'Brien. Time to stop eavesdropping and do some work.
- John Bates: [getting their run-down cottage liveable] What do they call extreme optimism?
- Anna Bates: They call it making the best of things, and that is what we'll do.
- Lady Rose MacClare: [after he's promised to keep secret her affair with a married man] Why are you helping me?
- Matthew Crawley: [sarcastically] I'm on the side of the downtrodden.