Downton Abbey (TV Series)

Episode #6.1 (2015)

Lesley Nicol: Mrs. Patmore

Quotes 

• Mrs. Hughes : I hadn't fully considered all the aspects of marriage, of what I was getting into.

  Mrs. Patmore : I don't understand. What aspects? You know each other better than most couples at the start.

  [They exchange glances] 

  Mrs. Patmore : Oh, my Lord. You mean...?

  Mrs. Hughes : Yes. That is precisely what I mean.

  Mrs. Patmore : Well, there's nothing so terrible about it, is there? So they say. I wouldn't know, of course.

  Mrs. Hughes : Mrs. Patmore, look at me. I'm a woman in late middle age.

  Mrs. Patmore : Oh, don't say 'late'.

  Mrs. Hughes : I was not bad looking as a girl, if you can believe it.

  Mrs. Patmore : Very easily.

  Mrs. Hughes : But these days? I'm not sure I can let him see me as I am now.

  Mrs. Patmore : Perhaps you can keep the lights off.

  Mrs. Hughes : That is NOT helpful, Mrs. Patmore.

  Mrs. Patmore : Well, won't he feel the same? I mean, no one's clapped eyes on him without his togs for years, except the doctor.

  Mrs. Hughes : Good point. Very good point!

• Charles Carson : Tell her this, Mrs. Patmore. That, in my eyes, she is beautiful.

  Mrs. Patmore : I see.

  Charles Carson : You say she asks if I want a 'full' marriage and the answer is yes, I do. I want a real marriage, a true marriage, with everything that that involves. And I hope I do not ask the indelicate when I send you back to relay this message.

  Mrs. Patmore : Don't worry about me.

  Charles Carson : I love her, Mrs. Patmore. I am happy and tickled and bursting with pride that she would agree to be my wife. And I want us to live as closely as two people can, for the time that remains to us on earth.

  Mrs. Patmore : Well, you couldn't make it any clearer. I'll say that for you.

• Mrs. Patmore : [to Mrs. Hughes]  Carson couldn't be vulgar if they put him on a seaside postcard !

• Daisy Mason : A problem shared is a problem halved.

  Mrs. Patmore : Or doubled!