“I am leaving in the morning Lady Grantham. I doubt we will meet again.” Sir Richard“Do you promise?” Dowager Countess Violet”

“Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.”

“You are mine now, I am not going to let anything happen to you.”

“I am a work in progress.”

“Why Judge someone? What gives YOU the right? We are all humans and we all have stories. Don't be critical on people...For how would you like it if they said that about you?”

“A lesson for you, Mr. Grim: Intending an action and doing it are far from the same thing. Until you are right there, with the choice in front of you, you can only guess what you might do, and what your character might be. Are you hero or coward? Often you will guess wrong.”

“Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.”