The Gilded Age (TV Series)

A Long Ladder (2022)

Christine Baranski: Agnes Van Rhijn

Quotes 

• Agnes Van Rhijn : You survive a civil war, yet you collapse because a lap dog is missing?

• Marian Brook : This is wonderful news.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : May I know this wonderful news?

  Marian Brook : You'll be thrilled.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I haven't been thrilled since 1865.

• Ada Brook : But what if he's found by an unscrupulous thief? Someone might pay $50 for him.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Only if they do not know the breed.

• Marian Brook : You'll know the Russells one day.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Hmm. Over my dead body.

• Peggy Scott : A Mr. Fortune, the editor of "The New York Globe," is going to publish one of my stories-- "Alone in the City."

  Marian Brook : What's it about?

  Peggy Scott : A young colored woman living on the Upper East Side.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : It's about you, in other words.

  Peggy Scott : All writers write about themselves, at least at the start. But Mr. Fortune wants my next article to be more political.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Just make sure that if you do, I never find out.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Aurora Fane has invited you to the Academy of Music. You will hear John Knowles Paine conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is raising money for your Miss Barton.

  Marian Brook : When is it?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Friday. Aurora will collect you on her way.

  Marian Brook : That sounds fun. Will you come?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I'd rather be put to death.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : You'll squeeze that dog to death.

  Ada Brook : Oh, I just want to cuddle him and cuddle him and never let him go.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I should watch out. He'll take off again. I would.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Marian, I cannot have an object in the house if I'm not allowed to know its provenance.

• Oscar Van Rhijn : Why would you want to go to Brooklyn?

  Marian Brook : As a matter of fact, I'm thinking of paying someone a surprise visit. She may need cheering up.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : So should I if I lived in Brooklyn.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : We don't know her at all, of course.

  Ada Brook : We know she's a kind person, Agnes. And I do not believe she would ever do anything self-destructive.

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

• Agnes Van Rhijn : If they'd found the dog, why not send a footman to return it? No, if you ask me, they kidnapped it so Mrs. Russell could deliver it in person. I said this would happen, when Oscar brought her son to tea. She wants to force us to receive her. Mark my words... any minute now, Mrs. Russell will arrive with the dog tucked underneath her arm.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Pull yourself together, for heaven's sake. You're a soldier's daughter. Remember it.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : I can manage opera as long as I can talk, but sitting through a symphony is beyond me.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Really, Ada, there's no point in carrying on as if you lived in a tree.

• Ada Brook : But what would happen to my poor little Pumpkin, surrounded by strangers?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : You never know... they might be very kind to him.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Marian, you would never entertain advances from someone whom I might not consider suitable?

  Marian Brook : Entertain advances? That sounds like a dance step in the gavotte.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : I will not have that mutt turned into a link between these houses.