- Tom Branson: There's no such thing as safe auto racing...
- Lady Mary Crawley: ...even so...
- Tom Branson: And there's no such thing as safe love. Real love gives someone the power to hurt you.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: Edith has a date.
- Lady Edith Crawley: No I don't.
- Lady Mary Crawley: [Sneering] Of course not.
- Lady Edith Crawley: What do you mean, 'Of course not'?
- Sybbie Branson: Is Granny Violet going to be an "Injun"?
- George Crawley: Granny said she was going on the warpath.
- Sybbie Branson: Who is the Sphinx?
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: The Sphinx? A creature of secrets she never reveals.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Rather like Granny Violet.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: If I had withdrawn my friendship, from everyone who had spoken ill of me, my address book would be empty.
- Tom Branson: Are you annoyed we've given Yew Tree Farm to Mr. Mason?
- Lady Mary Crawley: I'm annoyed you fixed it while I was in London. But no, he's a good man, and I hear pigs are his speciality.
- Tom Branson: No wonder you were convinced.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: [He sees Edith reading a letter] Good news?
- Lady Edith Crawley: Oh, it's just a friend. He's going to be in London and he wants to meet up.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: He?
- Lady Edith Crawley: It's nothing like that; it's Bertie Pelham, the agent from Brancaster Castle.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: I remember him, he shot with us.
- Lady Edith Crawley: And he helped get the magazine out during my night of terror.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: When's your train?
- Lady Edith Crawley: Nine.
- Lady Mary Crawley: Is this another magazine crisis?
- Lady Edith Crawley: No, but I am interviewing possible editors.
- Lady Mary Crawley: Women?
- Lady Edith Crawley: Women.
- Tom Branson: Well I approve. Good luck with that.
- Lady Mary Crawley: But then who's the date with?
- Lady Edith Crawley: It's not a date; it's just a friend, as I keep saying.
- Henry Talbot: Sorry about that, there was rather a queue.
- Tom Branson: It's popular, that's a good sign.
- Henry Talbot: Oh, you don't know the place?
- [Tom shakes head]
- Lady Mary Crawley: You'll laugh at me, but I've hardly ever been in a public house. Matthew wasn't really a pub man, and Papa goes into the Grantham Arms about once a year to have a drink with the tenants.
- Henry Talbot: Well I'm afraid my life is an altogether rougher affair.
- Lady Mary Crawley: [Smiling widely] Consider me warned.
- Tom Branson: So the car's a success?
- Henry Talbot: Well, I wasn't convinced it would be, but it is. You must have a go sometime.
- Tom Branson: I hope that's a real offer.
- Henry Talbot: You know, I didn't realize you were so keen, Tom. Blast! You could have driven there today.
- Tom Branson: You know I came to Downton as a chauffeur
- Henry Talbot: Oh, Mary told me. But then, not every chauffeur has a real love for cars.
- Tom Branson: That's true enough.
- Henry Talbot: [Turning to Mary] I'll tell you who was talking about you the other day: Evelyn Napier.
- Lady Mary Crawley: [Without emotion] Oh, how is he?
- Henry Talbot: He's well. Still single, of course, and, I suspect, still pining for you.
- Lady Mary Crawley: He will pine in vain, but I'm very fond of him.
- Henry Talbot: La bell dame sans merci.
- Tom Branson: What does that mean?
- Henry Talbot: It means... Lady Mary knows what she's about. I'll tell you what, next time we're all down south, why don't we all have dinner?
- Lady Mary Crawley: I'd love that.
- Tom Branson: You are funny.
- Lady Mary Crawley: What do you mean?
- Tom Branson: The way you have to keep making excuses for why you'll meet.
- [Turning to Mary]
- Tom Branson: You to watch him drive cars,
- [Turning to Henry]
- Tom Branson: you to have dinner with a friend. Why can't you just say, "I'd love to spend more time with you"? When can we do it?
- Lady Mary Crawley: You see? He may have assimilated in some ways, but he still fights playing by the rules.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: When we unleash the dogs of war we must go where they take us.
- Charles Carson: What's it for?
- Mrs. Hughes: Sergeant Willis needs her help.
- Charles Carson: Sergeant Willis again? Do other butlers have to contend with the police arriving every ten minutes?
- Mrs. Hughes: Not often.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: You have no more chance than a cat in Hell without claws.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: We'll see.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: [re Minister of Health attending dinner] What power did you use to get him here?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: The power of personality. It works for me.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I was raised in a hard school and I fight accordingly.
- Lady Edith Crawley: It's my grandmother who invited him
- Bertie Pelham: How impressive!
- Lady Edith Crawley: She is rather
- Miss Denker: [to Dr. Clarkson] Throwing over my Lady who's been running the village since before you were eating porridge with your mommy!
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: Mama needs to see this as the last largest battle of her life. If she loses there'll be hell to pay.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Then there'll be hell to pay.
- Miss Denker: [to Spratt with threat of revealing his family's criminal history] You'd better figure out what to say unless you want to find yourself sewing mailbags.
- Tom Branson: [re : Violet] She' s fond of your wife...
- Neville Chamberlain: Probably not, but I don't want to take the chance.
- Charles Carson: They performed a gastrectomy.
- Thomas Barrow: What's that?
- Charles Carson: No business of ours.
- Robert, Earl of Gratham: Mama is not a good loser.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: [sarcastically] She's had so little experience.
- [the police have requested Baxter to testify against the man for whom she stole her former employer's jewellery many years ago; reluctantly she turns up at court, with Molesley there to give her moral support, only to find that she won't be needed]
- Baxter: Did you hear?
- Joseph Molesley: That he changed his plea? Yes. I was in court. I've only just come out. I expect when he heard that you'd turned up, he must have known it was pointless.
- Baxter: So I've been spared.
- Joseph Molesley: How do you feel?
- Baxter: In one way I feel relieved, of course. The newspapers won't find me and there'll be no repercussions.
- Joseph Molesley: But...
- Baxter: I suppose I'd worked myself up into facing him across the courtroom - this man who ruined my life - and now it feels a bit anticlimactic.
- Joseph Molesley: [facetiously] Shall I go back in and ask him to plead not guilty after all?