Downton Abbey (TV Series)

Episode #5.1 (2014)

Jim Carter: Charles Carson

Quotes 

• Mr. Carson : Is everything satisfactory, M'Lord?

  Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham : No, it isn't! And can you please keep Moseley in the kitchens until his hair stops turning blue?

• Mrs. Hughes : I gather from Mr Moseley, you gave the good news to His Lordship?

  Mr. Carson : This is correct.

  Mrs. Hughes : How did you get them to agree?

  Mr. Carson : I said I wouldn't serve if they didn't make him patron.

  Mrs. Hughes : And have you told him that?

  Mr. Carson : He doesn't need to know everything, Mrs Hughes. Nobody has to know everything.

• Mr. Carson : I feel a shaking of the ground I stand on-that everything I believe in will be tested and held up for ridicule over the next few years.

• Mr. Carson : The nature of life is not permanence but flux.

  Mrs. Hughes : Just so, even if it does sound faintly disgusting