The Alienist
Mondays 10:00 PM on TNTThe Alienist Season 1 Episode 5: "Hildebrandt's Starling" Quotes
I do hope this letter has been written in jest. Or is it a training exercise?
Mr. McLeod [to Kreizler's team]
Doctor, we're not talking about the gilded upbringing of a handsome but indolent member of the leisure class.
Sara [to Kreizler, about Moore]
Sara: Why do you actively resist so strongly the possibility of a woman's involvement ...
Kreizler: Because had a woman been dominant in his life at any point, we wouldn't even be here. These crimes would never have happened.
{Kreizler] is a bully and I will not be bullied.
Sara [to Moore]
Sara: And what do you know of honest work?
Moore: I know I don't care for it
It wasn't what you learned in class, it's how you learned.
Cavanaugh [to Kreizler]
If it was just envy, doctor, then why aren't you out there chopping off people's arms?
Jessie [to Kreizler]
Moore: I don't suppose you got what you wanted from Jesse?
Kreizler: Perhaps the truth -- that I don't know as much as I think I do.
Kreizler: Is the wine not satisfactory?
Sara: It's delicious.
Kreizler: You're not being truthful.
Sara: The truth is I prefer whiskey.
Kreizler [to waiter]: Bring the lady a whiskey.
Sara: Please make it two.
Kreizler: I find Commissioner Roosevelt capable of disagreeing with most people on most things.
Sara: You have similar temperments then.
If the need for salvation did not exist, the church would surely find its invention necessary.
Kreizler [to the bishop]
You're not going to get away with this, Mr. Roosevelt.
Connor [to Roosevelt]
