I applaud your enthusiasm and I envy your freedom.

Miss Marian Brook

These people. You shut the door, they come in the window. You shut the window, they come down the chimney.

Agnes Van Rhijn

We’re not arranging a debutante ball, Mrs. Morris. We’re raising money to bring help to people in dire need all over this country.

Miss Clara Barton

Sometimes it’s hard to be quite sure what is happening now.

Miss Marian Brook

This isn’t a society squabble since Mrs. Russell is not in society.

Mrs. Anne Morris

Miss Marian Brook: Do you like Mrs. Astor?
Agnes Van Rhijn: That’s like saying “Do you like rain?” She is a fact of life that we must live with.

Miss Marian Brook: You surprised me, I grant you.
Mr. Tom Raikes: Let me surprise you some more.

I know the facts. My husband is dead, that’s a fact. My house is sold, my money is done. And now you’ll turn your back on me like all the other just to keep in with this potato digger’s daughter.

Mrs. Anne Morris

Miss Marian Brook: Mrs. Russell and Mr. McAllister seem to be getting on well.
Mr. Charles Fane: Why wouldn’t they, when they are more or less the same person?

I always felt I was where I belonged, because I had you.

Mr. George Russell

Miss Turner is no nun, I assure you.

Mrs. Bruce

He is Cerberus, snarling and growling, to protect his mystic Rose, as he likes to call her.

Mrs. Aurora Fane

The Gilded Age Quotes

I may be a bastard, Mr. Thorburn, but you are a fool -- and of the two, I think I know which I prefer.

Mr. George Russell

I know he feels what he thinks is love, but I disagree with his definition.

Peggy Scott