The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Irresistible Change (2022)

Christine Baranski: Agnes Van Rhijn

Quotes 

• Ada Brook : Well, I'm not Rip Van Winkle, Agnes. And I understand that young men have to sow their wild oats.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Even if that were true, they do not have to sow them with servants.

  Ada Brook : What would you prefer? An actress? Or a prostitute?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Ada! I'm going to have to ring for my smelling salts if you do not moderate your tone. You should not even know these words exist.

  Ada Brook : Well, I do. And I know that well brought up young ladies are not the girls lighting the cigars of their escorts at Delmonico's.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : You are forcing me to reevaluate your character.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : My mother always told me never to write anything I wouldn't want printed on the letters page of a popular journal.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Of course I won't write to her. She might write back.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Oscar has disgraced himself.

  Ada Brook : With Mrs. Russell's maid.

  Marian Brook : How democratic.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : It is no laughing matter. Really.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Please thank Mrs. Russell for this note, but without a trace of warmth.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Aurora has developed a certain social promiscuity recently.

• Ada Brook : Taming electricity is probably the most important innovation of our lifetime.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : And is that something to celebrate?

  Marian Brook : I think so. I wish I was there. To see Park Row illuminated?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : But with what sort of people? Ruffians, thieves, and worse.

  Marian Brook : Mrs. Russell's taking a party.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I rest my case.

• Marian Brook : Well, he's friendly with the Rikers now, and the Rockwells, and last week, he dined with Mrs. Randolph.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Do all his friends have names beginning with R?

  Marian Brook : I know you think he only mixes with the new people...

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Like Mrs. Russell. Another R.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : You're very obedient all of a sudden. What are you planning to spring on me?