The Gilded Age
Sundays 9:00 PM on HBOThe Gilded Age Quotes
Aurora: You do know I won’t go against Mrs. Astor.
Mrs. Russell: I know you think you won’t. But don’t worry, we shan’t fall out.
Marian: I teach watercolors at St. Marys. On Thursdays.
Agnes: The day is immaterial.
The Spring family has asked us to join them in their grief for Easter, so that is what we shall do.
Dorothy
Oscar: I am happy to be henpecked as long as you are doing the pecking. We’d have fun, Gladys. I know we would. I want us to be happy, very happy, and I believe we could be. [he kisses her hand] Don’t answer now, but just know that I love and admire you more than I can say. More than I’ve ever felt for any other woman.
Gladys: But you don’t know me, not really.
Oscar: I know you to be intelligent, and fine, and independent when you’re allowed to be and witty. You have every quality that I admire, truly.
Gladys: Shouldn’t you be saying the same things to my father?
Oscar: I’ll write to him.
Mrs. Russell: Do you think the new Metropolitan Opera will succeed?
Mr. McAllister: Members of the Academy are very determined it should not, and if you jump that way, you’ll never take Mrs. Astor with ya. My advice would be to stick with her. She’ll get you into the Academy in the end.
Mrs. Russell: I’m not much good with “in the end.” Besides, nothing stays the same forever, and I can’t always be at Mrs. Astor’s beck and call.
Mr. McAllister: Why not? I am.
You are glad to be ordered to march into Hell and to dance with the Devil?
Agnes Van Rhijn
I have no fear of scandal. I’m a walking scandal as it is.
Mrs. Chamberlain
Whoever achieved great things without taking a chance?
Mrs. Russell
If I don’t maintain standards, what is the point of me?
Mrs. Astor
Agnes Van Rhijn: I feel as if I’ve been watching a play in a foreign language.
Ada Brook: They’re young.
Agnes Van Rhijn: Is that an observation or an excuse?
Ada Brook: Both.
Did you think it was right before, and now you’re sorry because you got caught?
Mr. George Russell
A very nice anchor around a very willing neck.
Mr. Tom Raikes
