The Gilded Age
Sundays 9:00 PM on HBOThe Gilded Age Season 2 Quotes
Gladys: Your former lady's made is now your neighbor in Newport?
Larry: Welcome to America.
I understand these marriages of convenience take place in every fashionable church in this city, but I want more than that for my child!
George
Mr. McAllister: I'm not sure it's terribly helpful to suggest Mrs. Blane is too old to watch tennis.
Mrs. Russell: I just didn't want her to be trapped in a crowd of shouting young men from Harvard.
Mr. McAllister: Oh, I think she'll enjoy it.
Our family has done a great many things that are not what a real family does.
Peggy
Agnes: Mr. Morgan sounds perfect.
Ada: Really, Agnes. Why don't you just run up to Fifth Avenue and stop any carriage that has a man inside?
Agnes: If I did, I doubt I would know his mother.
Susan Blane appeals to me mostly because she's quite unlike those suitable young ladies, and I'm fairly certain you don't want me to elaborate on that.
Larry
Armstrong: I confess I am surprised.
Peggy: That I did you a favor?
Armstrong: No, not exactly. I'm surprised you were allowed back into this house.
Peggy: I have no quarrel with you, Miss Armstrong. I mean it. But I promise you do not want one with me.
Marriage is not the place to look for freedom.
George
Of one thing, I am sure. That you can do better than Mr. Oscar van Rhijn.
George
Of one thing, I am sure. You can do better than Mr. Oscar van Rhijn.
George
You mustn't be afraid to fail, or you will never succeed.
Marian
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.
