The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Money Isn't Everything (2022)

Christine Baranski: Agnes Van Rhijn

Quotes 

• Agnes Van Rhijn : I'm going up to change.

  Oscar Van Rhijn : I doubt it, Mama. I'd say you'll come down again without having changed at all.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : I'm not concerned with facts. Not if they interfere with my beliefs.

  Oscar Van Rhijn : I give you prejudice in a nutshell.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Mrs. Chamberlain's money is tainted.

  Marian Brook : If you were living in one room with neither heat nor water, I'm sure you would not find it so.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : New York is a collection of villages, my dear. We know the people who live in our own village.

  Marian Brook : But not the ones who don't.

  Oscar Van Rhijn : The Russells live in your village, Mama. I could throw a stone from here and break their windows.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Don't tease me.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : While I am struggling, trying to hold back the tide of vulgarians that threatens to engulf us... I feel like King Canute.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Life has taught me one thing, Miss Scott. If you don't want to be disappointed, only help those who help themselves.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Do people like that bring their daughters out? I thought they just sold them to the highest bidder.

• Ada Brook : Or perhaps Oscar might take a shine to her himself.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Take a shine?

  Ada Brook : I only meant she's...

  Agnes Van Rhijn : They are first cousins. And she hasn't a cent. So I'd be grateful if you would keep your servants' hall slang to yourself.

• Marian Brook : They're joining the Dispensary for Poor Women and Children with the Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and they'll move the whole thing to 7th Street.

  Ada Brook : That's sounds sensible, doesn't it?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : It sounds dull enough to be respectable, at any rate.

• Ada Brook : Agnes, you can't have anything against an innocent young girl.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I am opposed to her tribe.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Seems to me the ship is sinking. Let us follow the example of rats.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : I don't wish her to marry for money. Only to marry for security, support, and, God willing, affection.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Why don't we just go outside and roam in the gutter? It will save time.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Marian has no income, and her birth... thanks to her mother... is not impeccable. In short, without a decent marriage, she will be lost.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Oh, if you ask me, he's a shyster with neither background nor fortune. It's obvious. He sees her as a ticket out of Doylestown.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Mrs. Chamberlain has things, terrible things, in her past, which render her unsuitable as an acquaintance for any well-brought-up young lady.