Downton Abbey (TV Series)
Episode #1.3 (2010)
Elizabeth McGovern: Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham
Quotes
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Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : Will we be seeing you here again?
Evelyn Napier : Nothing would give me more pleasure, but I'm afraid I'm a little busy at the moment, and...
[sighs]
Evelyn Napier : I wonder if I might risk embarrassing you, because I should like to make myself clear. The truth is, Lady Grantham, I am not a vain man; I do not consider myself a very interesting person... but I feel it's important that my future wife should think me so. A woman who finds me boring could never love me, and I believe marriage should be based on love... at least at the start.
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Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : [reading from Evelyn Napier's letter in which he discusses the countess' invitation to stay at Downton the night before the hunt] Apparently he's bringing a friend with him, an attache at the Turkish Embassy, Mr. Kemal Pamuk. He's the son of one of the Sultan's ministers and he's here for the Albanian talks.
Lady Mary Crawley : [Looking confused] What's that?
Lady Edith Crawley : To create an independent Albania. Don't you read the papers?
Lady Mary Crawley : I'm too busy living a life.
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Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : [embittered toward Mary] I feel now that I can never forgive what you have put me through this night. I hope in time I will come to be more merciful... but I doubt it.
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Lady Mary Crawley : [about Evelyn Napier] He's out with the York and Ainsty next week. The meet is at Downton. He wants some tea when he's up here.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : Where's he staying? With friends?
Lady Mary Crawley : He says he's found a pub that caters for hunting.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : Oh, we can improve on that - he must come here; he can send the horses up early, if he wants.
Lady Mary Crawley : He'll know why you're asking him.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : I can't think what you mean; his mother's a friend of mine - she'll be pleased at the idea.
Lady Mary Crawley : Not *very* pleased... she's dead.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : ...All the more reason, then.
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Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : I don't dislike Matthew. In fact, I rather admire him.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Is that sufficient reason to give him your money?
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : Well, of course not!
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Then there's nothing more to be said.