You have a good heart. But I run my own life. Is that clear?

Miss Peggy Scott

If you won’t let me go into society, mother, I must find some society for myself.

Miss Gladys Russell

I haven't been thrilled since 1865.

Agnes Van Rhijn

I live in a different country from the one you know.

Peggy Scott

Mr. Arthur Scott: Dorothy, our responsibility is to raise a child with a sense of right and wrong. I cannot put that aside to play happy families.
Mrs. Dorothy Scott: No. And it’s not a game we are very well equipped for, is it?

The flaw in your argument is that I love my wife.

Mr. George Russell

Miss Turner: I'm wasting my life here.
Baudin: Then leave, or change things.

Self-destructive? You’ve been reading those German books again. I've warned you before, just stick to Louisa May Alcott.

Agnes Van Rhijn

Why should I align myself with either party when I don’t have the right to vote?

Peggy Scott

You are too reasonable to live.

Mrs. Aurora Fane

Life can be cruel, Mrs. Bruce, but I mean to get the better of it.

Miss Turner

Mr. Carlton: There are at least two white men sitting in a bar around the corner drinking away their sorrows because I turned them down. They’d kill to be in your position.
Miss Peggy Scott: But they’d never be in my position.

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