Violet: "First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I were living in an H.G. Wells novel." (Season 1)

Mrs. Patmore: "Daisy, what’s happened to you? I said you could go for a drink of water, not a trip up the Nile." (Season 1)

Violet: "You are quite wonderful the way you see room for improvement wherever you look. I never knew such reforming zeal." Isobel: "I take that as a compliment." Violet: "I must've said it wrong." (Season 1)

Anna: "I love you, Mr. Bates! And I know it's not ladylike to say so, but I'm not a lady and I don't pretend to be." (Season 1)

Lady Edith: "So he slipped the hook?" Lady Mary: "At least I'm not fishing with no bait." (Season 1)

Violet: "I'm not a romantic, but even I concede that the heart does not exist solely for the purpose to pump blood." (Season 2)

Daisy: "I’ve never been special to anyone." Mr. Mason: "Except William." Daisy: "That's right. I were only ever special to William. I never thought of it like that before." Mr. Mason: "Well, now you’re special to me." (Season 2)

Matthew: "You've lived your life, and I've lived mine. Now it's time we live them together." (Season 2)

Violet: "I'm a woman, Mary. I can be as contrary as I choose." (Season 2)

Violet: "It’s true I think a woman’s place is eventually in the home, but there isn’t much harm in her having some fun before she gets there." (Season 3)

Cora: "You are being tested. And you know what they say my darling, being tested only makes you stronger." (Season 3)

Violet: "Seems a pity to miss such a good pudding." (Season 3)

Bates: "Do you never doubt? For just one minute? I wouldn't blame you." Anna: "No. And, before you ask, I don't doubt that the sun will rise in the east, either." (Season 3)

Matthew: "I have to take one thing for granted, that I will love you until the last breath leaves my body." (Season 3)

Carson: "I am not a complete stranger to romance, Mrs. Hughes, if that’s what you’re implying." (Season 4)

Isobel: "How you hate to be wrong." Violet: "I wouldn't know. I'm not familiar with the sensation." (Season 4)

Baxter: "You've made me strong, Mr. Molesley. Your strength has made me strong." (Season 4)

Mrs. Hughes: "You can always hold my hand if you need to feel steady." Carson: "I think I will hold your hand. It'll make me feel a bit steadier." (Season 4)

Violet: "[My maid Collins] keeps talking about her mother being infirm. But I'm infirm. Why can't she think of that?" Isobel: "You're as infirm as Windsor Castle." (Season 5)

Mrs. Patmore: "Sympathy butters no parsnips." (Season 5)

Robert: "There is nothing more ill-bred than trying to steal the affections of one's dog." (Season 5)

Violet: "Oh, it is you! I thought it was a man in your clothes." (Season 5)

Carson: "We must always travel in hope." (Season 5)

Violet: "You know me…Never complain, never explain." (Season 5)

Mrs. Hughes: "Of course I'll marry you, you old booby. I thought you'd never ask!" (Season 5)