Maggie Smith credited as playing...
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
- Matthew Crawley: The question is, what do I say to Cousin Violet?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: Oh, don't worry about that. I can handle her.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [Violet enters the room] Really? Well if you can, you must have learned to *very* recently.
- Joseph Molesley: I've got Erysipelas, Your Ladyship.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Ooh... oh, I am sorry.
- Dr. Clarkson: Mrs. Crawley tells me she's recommended nitrate of silver and tincture of steel.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Well, is she making a suit of armor?
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Good heavens, what am I sitting on?
- Matthew Crawley: A swivel chair.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Another modern brain wave?
- Matthew Crawley: Not very modern. They were invented by Thomas Jefferson.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Why does every day involve a fight with an American?
- Matthew Crawley: I'll fetch you a different one.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: No, no, no, no, I'm a good sailor.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [talking of how to introduce Mary to more society] How about some house parties?
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: She's been asked to one next month by Lady Anne McNair.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Most terrible idea; she doesn't know anyone under a hundred.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: I might send her over to visit my aunt; she could get to know New York.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Oh, I don't think things are quite that desperate.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Sybil - Sybil darling, why would you want to go to a real school? You're not a doctors daughter!
- Lady Sybil Crawley: Nobody learns anything from a governess, apart from French and how to curtsy!
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Well, what else do you need?
- Lady Sybil Crawley: Well, there's...
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Are you thinking of a career in banking?
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [to the collective] Where's Robert? He can't have been drinking port since we left, he'd be under the table by now.
- Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham: Things are different in America.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I know. They live in wigwams.