- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Do you ever think of the war?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: What do you mean?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: How it was, when the girls were working with the officers and I was running everything, with Barrow.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: I don't remember Mary doing much.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Sometimes I find myself thinking how busy we were, how useful.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: You can't wish those days back again.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Well, I wouldn't admit it outside this room.
- Isobel Crawley: How is Spratt?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Well, I think. Why do you ask?
- Isobel Crawley: He wasn't there to open the door. I wondered if he might be ill.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Oh, no, no, he's not ill. He's in Liverpool. His niece got married yesterday and Spratt had to take her down the aisle.
- Isobel Crawley: Oh. Seems rather unlikely to think of Spratt with a private life.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Mmm. Unlikely. And extremely inconvenient.
- Isobel Crawley: But you can't begrudge him that, surely. Servants are human beings too.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Yes. Preferably only on their days off.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [crossly, after Pratt has been hinting at knowing something] You're testing me, Spratt... and I warn you, being tested does not bring out the best in me!
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: An unlucky friend is tiresome enough; an unlucky acquaintance is intolerable.
- Isobel Crawley: You're all heart.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: In my day a lady was incapable of feeling physical attraction until she'd been instructed to do so by her mama.
- Lady Mary Crawley: I don't believe that.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Seriously, my dear, you have to take control of your feelings before they take control of you.
- Anthony Gillingham: Darling Granny, you know how much I value your advice.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Which means you intend to ignore it.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: If I was seduced by a man, I would not let any grass grow under his feet, if he offered to do the decent thing.
- Lady Mary Crawley: I wasn't seduced, granny.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: A young woman of good family who finds herself in the bed of a man who is not her husband has invariably been seduced.
- Lady Mary Crawley: She couldn't have gone to bed with him of her own free will?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: *Not* if she was the daughter of an earl.
- Charles Carson: [after denying Mrs. Patmore's nephew be included in war memorial] But, I don't want you to think I'm unsympathetic
- Mrs. Patmore: Yes, well, sympathy butters no parsnips.
- Lady Mary Crawley: [to Anthony Gillingham] Nothing is going to happen that isn't properly announced, organized, and executed.