- Sir Richard Carlisle: [watching the family playing its annual gane of charades] Do you enjoy these games in which the player must appear ridiculous?
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Sir Richard, life is a game, where the player must appear ridiculous.
- Sir Richard Carlisle: Not my life.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [entering the room where the fight between Richard and Matthew has just been broken up] Oh, what on Earth's the matter?
- Sir Richard Carlisle: I'm leaving the morning, Lady Grantham; I doubt we'll meet again.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [with satisfaction] Do you promise?
- Matthew Crawley: [regarding broken crockery after his fight with Carlisle] Sorry about the vase.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Don't be, don't be. It was a wedding present from a frightful aunt. I have hated it for half a century.
- Mr. Mason: So, will you be my daughter? Let me take you into my heart, make you special? You'll have parents of your own, of course.
- Daisy Mason: I haven't got any parents. Not like that. I've never been special to anyone.
- Mr. Mason: Except William.
- Daisy Mason: That's right. I were only ever special to William. Never thought of it like that before.
- Mr. Mason: Well, now you're special to me.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Do you recall a Turkish diplomat who stayed here before the War?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: I think I can be relied on to remember any guest who is found dead in his bed the next morning.
- Sir Richard Carlisle: Why were you and Matthew laughing at the end of the first drive?
- Lady Mary Crawley: I suppose he must've said something funny.
- Sir Richard Carlisle: [of Bates' lawyer at the table] Is he confident?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: He seems to be.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [dryly] Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It is only afterwards they share their doubts.
- Lady Rosamund Painswick: [of Lord Hepworth] I know he has no fortune, if that's what you mean.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: No fortune? He's lucky not to be playing the violin in Leicester Square.
- Lady Mary Crawley: Thank you for intervening back there before I said something rude.
- Matthew Crawley: He does beg to be teased.
- Lady Mary Crawley: The awful truth is he's starting to get on my nerves.
- Matthew Crawley: You're still going to marry him, though?
- Lady Mary Crawley: Of course. Why wouldn't I?
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [In reference to having known Lord Hepworth's father in her youth] Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?
- [But where are the snows of yesteryear?]
- Lady Mary Crawley: [of the grouse hunting] I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
- Sir Richard Carlisle: Why do we have to serve ourselves at luncheon?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: It's a Downton tradition. They have their feast at lunchtime and we have ours in the evening.
- Sir Richard Carlisle: But why can't they eat earlier and serve us like they usually do?
- Lady Mary Crawley: Because it's Christmas Day!
- Sir Richard Carlisle: It's not how we'll do it at Haxby.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Which I can easily believe.