- Lavinia Swire: This room is so pretty. Has this house always been the Painswicks' London home?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: There's no 'always' with the Painswicks, my dear. They were invented from scratch by my son-in-law's grandfather.
- Lady Rosamund Painswick: We bought the house when we were married.
- Lavinia Swire: You make Mr. Painswick sound rather a rough diamond, Lady Grantham.
- Lady Rosamund Painswick: Marmaduke wasn't a rough diamond was he, Mama?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: No. He was just cut and polished comparatively recently.
- Matthew Crawley: I cast you as Florence Nightingale?
- Lady Mary Crawley: We can't leave all the moral high ground to Sybil. She might get lonely there.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: [authoritatively to Dr. Clarkson] Now I think perhaps I should make one thing clear. Downton is our house and our home and we will welcome in it any friends or relations we choose and if you do not care to accept that condition then I suggest you give orders for the nurses and the patients and the beds and the rest of it to be packed up and shipped out at once.
- Isobel Crawley: One more thing. The dog. What can we do to stop Isis from getting into the patients bedrooms?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: [authoritatively to Mrs. Crawley] I can answer that - absolutely nothing!
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: It's classic Rosamund. She's never so righteous as when she's wrong.
- Charles Carson: [pushing Tom down the stairs] Get downstairs now!
- Tom Branson: All right, all right! There's no need to be so rough.
- Charles Carson: There's every need to stop a murder!
- Tom Branson: Murder? What do you mean, murder?
- Anna Smith: You were going to assassinate the general!
- Tom Branson: [laughs] Kill the general? I was not.
- Anna Smith: [takes the lid off the soup and gets a whiff] Eurgh!
- Tom Branson: I was going to throw that lot all over him.
- Anna Smith: What is it?
- Tom Branson: Oil and ink and a bit of a cowpat, all mixed with sour milk. He'd have needed a bath right enough, but not a coffin.
- Matthew Crawley: Mother does love a bit of authority. I suppose she's driving cousin Cora mad.
- Lady Mary Crawley: No names, no packdrill.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Good. If anyone is to be in charge let it be our creature.
- Isobel Crawley: Why. Are you planning to divide his loyalties?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I wouldn't say I was planning on it.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: You take over every room in the house, you bark at me like a sergeant major and you give orders to my servants.
- Isobel Crawley: Who is that man? I hope he's not complaining.
- Lady Edith Crawley: Oh no. That's Captain Smiley. He hasn't an unkind bone in his body.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: What on earth's that about?
- Lady Edith Crawley: Don't worry. Major Holmes can be a little waspish but he wouldn't want to get us into trouble.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: How do you know so much about a pack of strangers?
- Lady Edith Crawley: They're not strangers to me.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: What these men will need is rest and relaxation. Will that be achieved by mixing ranks and putting everyone on edge?
- Lady Edith Crawley: [to Edith] Trust me. You have a talent that none of the rest of us have. Just find out what it is and use it. It's doing nothing that's the enemy
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [about Sir Richard arguing with Lavinia in the garden] But what do you think it meant?
- Lady Mary Crawley: Really, Granny. Lavinia Swire knows Richard Carlisle. So what? One knows lots of people in London.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I don't know many people who'd threaten me behind the laurels.
- Ethel Parks: Major Bryant wants me to go to the pictures in York with him, when he's allowed out. But you'll say that's stupid.
- Anna Smith: Not stupid. Insane.
- Ethel Parks: Oh, he really likes me, though. He says he wants to get to know me better.
- Anna Smith: Has he told you how he's planning to achieve it?
- Ethel Parks: Spoilsport.
- John Bates: [sitting together at a table] I can t marry you yet, not legally, and I won't break the law.
- Anna Smith: It's not aginst the law to take a mistress, Mr. Bates.
- John Bates: I know you, Anna Smith, and I love you and that is not the right path for you. It won't be long, now.