- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I won't take sides, it's true. But I don't think I could ever be described as "neutral".
- Prince Kuragin: When you go through a storm like ours, you give up hope quite early on in the proceedings.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I agree - hope is a tease, designed to prevent us accepting reality.
- Isobel Crawley: Oh, you only say that to sound clever.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Yes, I know. You should try it.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I never take sides in a broken marriage.
- Hugh 'Shrimpie' MacClare, Marquess of Flintshire: Why is that?
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Because however much the couple may strive to be honest, no one is ever in possession of the facts.