Downton Abbey [Season 1]

— Are we to be friends, then?
— We are allies, my dear, which can be a good deal more effective.

And what would be the point of living if we didn't let life change us?

— What about you? What about your heart?
— Haven't you heard? I don't have a heart. Everyone knows that.
— Not me, my lady.

No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else's house, especially someone they didn't even know.

You can change your life if you want to. Sometimes you have to be hard on yourself, but you can change it completely, I know.

— Why did you apologize to that man? It's not his business what we do.
— I always apologize when I'm in the wrong. It's a habit of mine.

— I was only trying to help.
— Oh, like Judas was only "trying to help" I suppose, when he brought a Roman soldiers to the garden!

— I meant you can go just like that, with no reason.
— That's why you should treat every day as if it were your last.

Everything seems so golden one minute, then turns to ashes the next.

One can't go to pieces at the death of every foreigner. We'd all be in a state of collapse whenever we opened a newspaper.

— I'm sorry, Mama, but you know me. I have to say what I think.
— Why? Nobody else does.

— I may be a Socialist but I'm not a lunatic.
— I'm not sure Papa knows the difference.

Politicians can't often recognise the changes that are inevitable.

No one ever warns you about bringing up daughters. You think it's going to be like Little Women, and instead they're at each other's throats from dawn till dusk.