Penelope Wilton credited as playing...
Isobel Merton
- Violet Crawley: Machiavelli is frequently underrated. He had many qualities.
- Isobel Merton: So did Caligula - not all of them charming.
- Isobel Merton: Oh Violet. After all these years you still astonish me.
- Violet Crawley: Oh good, I'm glad I'm a revelation and not a disappointment.
- 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.
- Violet Crawley: Of course, little Mary, could hammer in a tent peg with her teeth.
- Isobel Merton: I wonder who she got that from?
- Violet Crawley: You know, I'm always surprised when you praise me.
- Isobel Merton: I'm surprised to hear that I have.