Michelle Dockery credited as playing...
Lady Mary
- Lady Mary Talbot: What are you up to, granny?
- Violet Crawley: Well, ideally, I would like Maud to see your father as the son she never had.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Will she be the mother I never had?
- Violet Crawley: Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
- Lord Merton: Who are those men measuring on the green as we came past?
- Lady Mary: They are building the dais for the queen at the parade.
- Lord Merton: Oh, how exciting.
- Isobel Merton: Seems rather a waste of money.
- Violet Crawley: Oh, here we go.
- Cora Crawley: Isn't that what the monarchy's for? To brighten the lives of the nation with stateliness and glamor.
- Isobel Merton: To quote Tennyson, "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood."
- Violet Crawley: Will you have enough clichés to get you through the visit?
- Isobel Merton: If not, I'll come to you.
- Lady Mary Talbot: [commenting on the sudden sunshine after a storm the day of a royal parade] The day has dawned and the weather proves conclusively that God is a monarchist.
- Henry Talbot: Leave Downton? We're stuck with it, aren't we?
- Lady Mary Talbot: Yes. Yes, I believe we are.
- Tom Branson: He heard my sympathies lay with Ireland and the Republic.
- Lady Mary: Don't they?
- Tom Branson: Not at any cost. I'm a law and order man these days. That's what you lot have done to me.
- Robert Crawley: Is there any chance Henry might be back?
- Lady Mary: Well, I doubt it. I'll send a telegram. But, there's a motor show in Chicago that I know he cannot chuck.