- Mrs. Hughes: I hadn't fully considered all the aspects of marriage, of what I was getting into.
- Mrs. Patmore: I don't understand. What aspects? You know each other better than most couples at the start.
- [They exchange glances]
- Mrs. Patmore: Oh, my Lord. You mean...?
- Mrs. Hughes: Yes. That is precisely what I mean.
- Mrs. Patmore: Well, there's nothing so terrible about it, is there? So they say. I wouldn't know, of course.
- Mrs. Hughes: Mrs. Patmore, look at me. I'm a woman in late middle age.
- Mrs. Patmore: Oh, don't say 'late'.
- Mrs. Hughes: I was not bad looking as a girl, if you can believe it.
- Mrs. Patmore: Very easily.
- Mrs. Hughes: But these days? I'm not sure I can let him see me as I am now.
- Mrs. Patmore: Perhaps you can keep the lights off.
- Mrs. Hughes: That is NOT helpful, Mrs. Patmore.
- Mrs. Patmore: Well, won't he feel the same? I mean, no one's clapped eyes on him without his togs for years, except the doctor.
- Mrs. Hughes: Good point. Very good point!
- Charles Carson: Tell her this, Mrs. Patmore. That, in my eyes, she is beautiful.
- Mrs. Patmore: I see.
- Charles Carson: You say she asks if I want a 'full' marriage and the answer is yes, I do. I want a real marriage, a true marriage, with everything that that involves. And I hope I do not ask the indelicate when I send you back to relay this message.
- Mrs. Patmore: Don't worry about me.
- Charles Carson: I love her, Mrs. Patmore. I am happy and tickled and bursting with pride that she would agree to be my wife. And I want us to live as closely as two people can, for the time that remains to us on earth.
- Mrs. Patmore: Well, you couldn't make it any clearer. I'll say that for you.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [to Isobel] Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground ?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [to Spratt] If you were talking in Urdu, I couldn't understand you less.