The best Quotes by Violet Crawley

I do hope I’m interrupting something.

I don't dislike him, I just don't like him. Which is quite different.

I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose.

What's the matter, I have plenty of friends I don't like.

Violet: "I'm so looking forward to seeing your mother again. When I'm with her, I'm reminded of the virtues of the English."
Matthew: "But isn't she American?"
Violet: "Exactly."

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I’m living in an H.G. Wells novel.

Dear Lord,
I don´t pretend I have much credit with you.
I´m not even sure, that you´re there.
But if you are and if I´ve ever done anything good, I beg you to keep him save.

Lady Mary Crawley: Haven´t you heard? I don´t have a heart. Everyone knows that.
Anna Bates: I know you have a heart, mylady.

Violet Crawley: "Don't you care about Downton?"
Robert Crawley: "What do you think? I gave my life to Downton. I was born here and I hope to die here. It my third parent and my fourth child."

Edith Crawley: "[About the Titanic] I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable."
Robert Crawley: "Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it; so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks."

I'll never love again as I love you in this moment, and I must have something to remember.

Mrs. Hughes: "But the poor man's heart is breaking for not knowing."
Anna: "Better a broken heart than a broken neck."

Maybe it's best if he goes. Sometimes you can spend too much time on a one-sided love.

It's not complicated. I've made a long journey to ask a short question. Will you marry me?

I'm not unhappy. I'm just not quite ready to be happy.

Blake: "I don't deserve such attention."
Mary: "You certainly do. You saved our bacon. Quite literally."

Molesley: "I thought I'd make some coffee, would you like a cup?"
Baxter: "No thank you."
Molesley: "It's just a cup of coffee, you won't have to surrender any of your independence."

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Threatening the British by saying there will be only salt and vinegar on the table, is like threatening the French by saying there will only be wine and baguettes, or threatening the Swiss by saying there'll only be chocolate and Nazi gold.

When you lose everything, that's when you're finally free.