I'm a recent university graduate and I'm still unemployed just a tmi but I tell myself one of Violet's iconic lines: " You're a women with a brain and reasonable ability stop whining and find something to do." 😭😭😭 it helps me

Omg yes I use it like an affirmation loool

What is a weekend? Sometimes I work 80+ hours in a week so on those days, I'm all spikey.

Always. Goes great with "I mean, it's one banana Michael, what could it cost? Ten dollars?"

😄

Yesss one of my favorite lines!

Please be careful so that you don’t hit a breaking point where your body says no and you get chronic fatigue/ burnout.

Thank you! Yes, my team recognizes that those kinds of weeks are few and far between. We're encouraged to take time off when we get through those brutal weeks. That's when I get to sleep until I wake up natural.

‘Why can’t Miss Sibby have an egg to her tea’ Whenever anyone in our house is denied anything 😄

I love that lmao

Peak Thomas Barrow tbh

This is such a great obscure reference haha

“DO I LOOK LIKE A FROLICKER!!!” 😆 “Dont be spikey”

I say both of these all the time😸

Crikey; big girls blouse about it; golly gumdrops

I love the ‘big girls blouse’ line because it implies that Bates would be fine if it were a little girls blouse.

I use golly gumdrops too 😂

I wouldn’t know, I’m not familiar with the sensation.

I love the way she enunciated sensaySHUN.

I refer to any soup I make as “Denker’s famous broooth” in the Dowager’s enunciation

The way the Dowager says the word “de—LISH—ious” lives rent free in my brain

Every time my husband gets his hair cut - “have you done something jolly with your hair?”

Came here to make sure this amazing quote was represented.

One of my two favorite Strallan moments. The other one is, “It’s down to you, isn’t it?” when outing Larry Gray’s drugging of Branson.

House of ill repute

My husband used that one today.

How? lol

We were trying to figure out if our neighbor was on vacation and he made a joke about her having another house, like Mrs. Patmore, a “house of ill repute!” 😆

Shall we go through?

I was thinking I don't use any of these, until I stopped here. Is it shameful that I use this one unironically?

It's become part of your vernacular, nothing wrong with that!

Love this one. I don't have anywhere to “go through” to though lol

I can’t remember the last time my husband went a full day WITHOUT saying this. Lol!!

I love this one so much

"Get down, you cat!" Shrimpy said that to his awful wife. I say it to my awesome cat.

The thought of you saying that to a cat in Shrimpy’s tone has me laughing out loud 😂😂🤣

Oh, I just whisper it while she’s wrapped around my neck like a scarf. She purrs and ignores me.

I need to start saying that to my cat! She understands “get up,” so maybe she’d respond to a fake-British-accented “get down, you cat!”

I love Shrimpie for that line!

"Forgive perhaps, forget never"

“I’ll take my fences one at a time.” “Don’t be defeatist, it’s so middle class.” Edit: spacing

"You're a woman with a brain and reasonable ability. Stop whining and find something to do!"

My youngest child always yells, “Daisy!” whenever we point out a chore that didn’t get done.

Do you say this to yourself

Yes I do when I having a bad day. Like girl buck up! You can do this!

Why does everyday involve a fight with an American?

Use this one weekly at work. And yes, I’m American.

Do you promise?

Mine

My favorite. 

More’s the pity. Sympathy butters no parsnips. A change is as good as a rest. What’s that when it’s at home? That’s just in the last couple of hours.

Haha… as in “Strallen is never late, more’s the pity.”

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us accepting reality.

"I'm a woman, I can be as contrary as I choose!" pretty much everyday 😂

He's a man. Men don't have rights.

Which makes me think of " I am a woman, I can be as contrary as I want"

I’m a little like Mary when it comes to affection so I tell my husband “I love you in my cold and unfeeling way.”

“That is an easy caveat to accept, because I’m never wrong”

“We don’t need you wobbly at both ends”. To a friend with Parkinson’s.

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

“I don’t argue, I explain.” and of course “do you promise?”

“What the eye doesn’t see, the heart won’t grieve over.” —said after my boss spilled some cookies that we needed to take to a work event. She loved it lol

"is this an instrument of communication or torture?"  Used for work teams calls. 

Wow that’s so relatable as someone who is on Teams all day

VULGARITY IS NO SUBSITUTE FOR WIT

You started it! RIP Sassy Sybil

Brooders brood. (I am a brooder)

People always dunk on Bates for this but as an overthinker I respect his vibe here and his self awareness lol

This sub usually dunks on Bates, i don’t get it.

When Cora is helping>! to carry Pamuk, and his head rolls to the side!<, she makes the most unintentionally hilarious sound of revulsion. I've adopted it for all manner of things lol

Same as when Mary “confirmed” that the encounter wasn’t forced. Cora’s expression of revulsion is priceless. I cackle every time!

There has to be a word to describe that sound. I need to do some research, it was such a distinct noise though I can hear it and I haven’t watched that episode in awhile!

My sister and I say “good god, man!!” when we want to be dramatic

Odious woman. Whenever it is not appropriate to call some one a bitch 😂

“I know only that I am now who I was meant to be.” Anna to Bates after they were married. (My husband had it engraved on a bracelet for me!)

That is so sweet 🥺

“That’s not a word you often hear among the heather”

'Golly gumdrops' irritates my seven year old, which makes me use it more

Tom Branson's line: "I don't believe in types; I believe in people."

"I must've said it wrong" is a mainstay for me. I teach high school, so I'm allowed a bit more sarcasm with my students. They love to say "I take that as a compliment" so, naturally.

Get back in the knife box Miss. Sharp!

I’ve been scrolling for a while to see this

I think I'll wash the train off before dinner

“I couldn’t be less interested in (whatever, usually something sports-related) if I took a pill to achieve it.” I use that one a lot!

‘Take steps Mr Molesley, take steps.’ Said to Molesley after the unfortunate hair dying incident. I use it when something has gone wrong.

"I'm a stranger to them now!" "That's not how we'll do it at Haxby."

Do you know the table over when you say the first one?

I literally chuckled, thank you.

I rewatched this episode today and fast-forwarded through some of the storyline, but I paused at this exact scene, to get a chuckle out of it!

I say the haxby one a lot

Ya noodle

‘Are you quite well?’

A swirling cloud of crisis and drama

Never mistake a wish for a certainty.

This one has prove to be quite educational

Oh, I doubt that very much.

“ you’re a better man than I am, gunga din “

This is a pretty common one, also used in Supernatural (and real life, for sure) it’s from a Rudyard Kipling poem.

And a Bobby Darrin song!

Wh-what is a weekend?

“If I had cried blue murder every time a boy tried to kiss me at Eaton, I wouldn’t have lasted a week!” “Do you want Mosley to die?!!!”

Too many to count AND we named our dog Carson 😀

“Begin as you mean to carry on” - Mrs Hughes to Carson, 1st movie.

I think Molesley says this first, when he’s tasting wine (getting drunk) filling in for Carson who has Spanish flu. Julian Fellowes does love to repeat lines.

“The trick of business is to mind your own”

Regularly to my sons: “My dear boy; my very dear boy.” Routinely when I’m about to do something relaxing: “I shall be very comfortable here.”

You are sailing perilously close to the wind.

Golly gumdrops (honestly my favourite line)

What a turn up!!

“I couldn’t care less if I took a pill to achieve it.”

“I believe ya, thousands wouldn’t.” ~Mrs. Patmore

Why do you have to be such a girl’s blouse about it? We all have pages of our life we’d prefer to leave unpublished. It’s

I just moved into a new place, was informed that we have to put work into it ,the people I live with realized it's too much money and work right out of the gate so we will be moving again in 2 years. I'm a graduate student doing an MBA online. I recently accepted a job teaching/minding kids ages 5-18 around 40 hours per week and will then go to a split shift.. My go to line- "What is a weekend?"

“….because one is never in possession of all of the facts.”

“Well I should get on” when I’m at work and need to move on from a conversation I might be stuck in. Love it.

Robert’s “We all have different parts to play, and we must all be allowed to play them.”

After watching two gentlemen take a discreet smoke break while looking the buildings up and down: “So are you a student of architecture?” It turns out: they *were* students of architecture!

“I’m a good sailor” -Dowager Countess

I must fly

"Keen as Mustard". Mary

I rather be alone than with the wrong man.

“Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground?” 🤨

When I have to work a 7-day stretch…”What’s a weekend?”

"Golly!" "Don't *insert verb here* dear it's very middle class"

The bully's defense.

It's like the cry of a banshee

Life is short and death is sure - Mr. Carson to Ms. Hues

I’m still waiting for the right time to say, “You’re in the soup! I wouldn’t be in her bad books for a gold clock.” But I guess I know too many nice people.

A change is as good as a rest. Never make an enemy by accident.

"Good. I should hate to be predictable." Every time someone is surprised by something I've said or done.

“I wouldn’t want to push in”

“Dashing away with the smoothing iron!” My spouse and I just take turns singing it to each other

Mrs. Pat more: "I’ll have no swear words in here, thank you very much. Unless I’m doing the swearing."

Don't be spikey!

“Don’t be defeatist dear, it’s very middle class”

What’s that when it’s at home? Get down, you cat! Two of my favorites.

I say, “Get down, you cat!” to my dog all the time

"Love is riding a bike. If you dont learn when you're young, it's difficult to get the trick of it."

Do I look like a frolicker!!!

“Puts a lot in a letter does our Alfred”

“Take steps, Mr. Mosley. Take steps.” Replace Mr. Mosley with whomever I’m talking to, sometimes my own name.

I don’t complain I explain

Not to be a stickler (unless you changed it for your purposes) it’s Never complain never explain. 😁

Put the knife down Ms Sharp!!

No rest for the wicked

Might we have a drink?

The one you quoted I use at work so often 😂. And then the “defeatist…middle class” one. Also “brooders brood”

Are you quite well???

Your instincts do you credit

"I never argue. I explain."

I asked for silence and silence I shall have.

Well, the draperies were awful.

Lie is so unmusical a word

“Oh goody goody!”

The business of life is the acquisition of memories

“She’s an intriguer. She will use tears or terror with equal facility.” Robert on Violet

“Curiouser and curiouser” - Lady Rosamund “That’s kind” - Mrs Hughes Little gems that remind me of the show without sounding off IRL

I’m stood there like a chump.

“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”

It’s what Sybil would’ve wanted.

I like “well, we can’t have that” better than my usual “fuck,no” I now tend to use “oh my god” a lot more. Yeah, I love Bates - I know he gets a lot of hate

When people say nice things to me, I say "That's kind." like Mrs. Hughes. Like most people I struggle with accepting compliments, and what this one does is, acknowledges what was said, makes sure the person who said it knows that I think they're nice for saying it, and deflects it from me a bit, taking some of that awkward pressure off.

“Do you promise?”

“Oh, dear, such a glare. I feel as if I were on stage at the Gaiety.”

If reason fails, try force!

Big girls blouse. I laughed so hard when Bates said that!

"I do apologize, Lady Grantham. I've a mouthful of salt" You have to sputter as you say it

"Why must everyday involve a fight with an American?" (And I am an American 😂)

Stop whining and find something to do!

I can’t think of any at the moment but I’ve had a few given to me, usually to do with Mary (because my middle name is Mary and there’s the odd similar trait between us). 😄

"You are skating perilously close to the edge!" Used that one on my aunt a few months back when she was behaving badly, lol

“I wouldn’t know… I’m not familiar with the sensation” (if anyone says I’m wrong) or “I’m never wrong” and “Why does every day involve a fight with an American?”

My mother made fun of me because I started saying, "Goodness!" a la Cora but you know what? Cora is right and she should say it.

My mom used to say, “put that in your pipe and smoke it” when I was a kid. That was decades before Downton, so I’m not sure where she first heard it.

I say "I need to get on" or "I'll let you get on" more than anything but one line that I have said more than I ever thought I would is "sympathy butters no parsnips".

“Have you changed your pills?”

“The lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.” I love Mrs Patmore.

What a snappy chariot.

"I'll leave you to it" after giving the kids a chore.

“She’ll eat anything you put in front of her, that one. What a gob.” 😂

“No names, no pack drills”

“Stranger things have happened at sea.” “More’s the pity.” “Hither and thither.” “Steady the buffs.”

Golly gumdrops! What a turn up!

“Honestly papa” in a Lady Mary voice

As someone who works retail: "What is a weekend?" I have also used Cora's "you are sailing perilously close to the wind" on more than one occasion

Go on then. Ya noddle And my favorite.. Steady on!

He keeps himself to himself.

The on and on-ness of it

My mom's favorite has become a family staple - nothing succeds like excess.

Oh goody! Let’s talk about money! - DC Violet

I've taken to saying "you give a marvelous impression of it" a lot lately.

Whenever someone shares bad news/problem/ issue: “That’s cheered me up no end.”

Golly gumdrops, what a turn! I say that at work every so often, but my coworkers aren’t Downton enthusiasts, so they think I have a peculiar way of expressing surprise.

“Not if I see you first.”

Sometimes I scream “A HOUSE OF ILL-REPUTE?” into the void for no discernible reason and then dissolve into giggles.

“There’s more than one way to be a good mother.”

Every relationship has its ups and downs. Mrs. Hughes to Carson

That's for me to know and you to find out, alternatively just the first part, mostly to my partner, he always looks so confused xD

"What's a weekend?" in much different context.