Zitate und Sprüche von Countess 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.

One downside of our big brains is we're the only creatures who are aware that death is inevitable. Although, if you lined ten dogs in a row and shot them one by one, the dog on the end would probably get the gist by about dog four.