“You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.”

“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my time but is my experience that when grief is becoming it is also suspect. Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”

“If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.”

“Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)”

“It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.”

“In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.”

“Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.”