Downton Abbey 3×7

Downton Abbey 3×7

Isobel Crawley: So you don't think I should have given Ethel a second chance?
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I do not criticize your motives, but did you really consider? Ethel is notorious in the village.
Isobel Crawley: I don't think so.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I know so. You have surrounded this house with a miasma of scandal and touched all of us by association.
Isobel Crawley: I think one must fight for one's beliefs.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: And is poor Ethel to be the cudgel by which you fight your foes?

Lady Mary Crawley: Weren't you going to tell us?
Tom Branson: You and Matthew. I didn't think the others would want to know.
Lady Mary Crawley: Please give them a chance to behave properly.

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Mama, talk to her. Talk to all of them. Say something sensible.
Lady Edith Crawley: Yes, let's hear how a woman's place is in the home.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I do think a woman's place is eventually in the home, but I see no harm in her having some fun before she gets there.
Lady Edith Crawley: Oh, Granny! Thank you!
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Have you changed your pills?

Lady Mary Crawley: What do you think, Tom?
Tom Branson: I agree with Matthew. The estate can offer proper compensation to the tenants now while the money's there, but if we miss this chance, it may not come again.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: So says the Marxist.
Tom Branson: If you don't mind me saying so, you have a narrow view of socialism.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: You seem to have a very broad interpretation of it.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Now, now, children. If Branson is watering down his revolutionary fervor, let us give thanks. Tom. Do you know anything about farming, Tom?

Mr. Jarvis: I am the old broom, Mr. Crawley. You are the new. I wish you luck with your sweeping. My lord.

Mrs. Hughes: I know. You always said he would bring shame on this house...
Mr. Carson: No, Mrs. Hughes. For once, I will hold my tongue. I thought Mr. Branson's respect for her ladyship's invitation exemplary.
Mrs. Hughes: Well... "Mister" Branson's done something right for a change. Miracles can happen.

Lady Edith Crawley: Listen, everyone. You have a journalist in the family.
Matthew Crawley: Well done.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Since we have a country solicitor and a car mechanic, it's only a matter of time.

Mr. Carson: I don't understand what you're saying. Thomas was doing what?

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: I'll do it on one condition. No, two. First, Matthew must agree.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: He will.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Second, you will both admit it when you realize you were wrong.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Oh, well, that is an easy caveat to accept because I'm never wrong.

Mrs. Hughes: Mr. Barrow looks very grim-faced...
Mr. Carson: Never mind him. Human nature's a funny business, isn't it?
Mrs. Hughes: Now why didn't the poets come to you, Mr. Carson? They'd have saved themselves a lot of time and trouble.

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