The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Never the New (2022)

Christine Baranski: Agnes Van Rhijn

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• Agnes Van Rhijn : I don't know which is worse, the noise of the builders, or the chance of running into her in the street.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Now, you need to know we only receive the old people in this house, not the new. Never the new.

  Marian Brook : What's the difference?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : The old have been in charge since before the revolution. They ruled justly until the new people invaded.

  Ada Brook : It's not quite as simple as that.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Yes, it is.

  Marian Brook : Well, I'm new. I've only just arrived.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Marian, never mind that the Brooks have been in Pennsylvania for a century and a half. My mother, your grandmother, was a Livingston of Livingston Manor, and they came to this city in 1674. You belong to old New York, my dear, and don't let anyone tell you different. You are my niece, and you belong to old New York.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : More likely, she has discovered her father left her without a penny to her name. Henry couldn't provide for a dog in a ditch. He never kept a dollar in his pocket if there were women or drink within 500 miles.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : I suppose you only recently learned that your father had let you down.

  Marian Brook : Please don't speak ill of Daddy.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I will say what I like in my own house.

  Marian Brook : Not to me.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : And who is to support her? Exactly. Me. With the Van Rhijn money, which was not achieved at no cost to myself. You were allowed the pure and tranquil life of a spinster. I was not.

• Ada Brook : We should have gone for the funeral anyway.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : It wasn't worth an uncomfortable day of travel to make sure Henry was dead.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Why do you bring that beastly dog? Dogs are supposed to run alongside carriages, not travel in them.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : You carried a suitcase through the streets?

  Marian Brook : Oh, have I broken another rule?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : You were to check it was ready and then send the footman to collect it. And never go out unaccompanied. Please don't do such a thing again.

• Ada Brook : It's an invitation.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Addressed to us?

  Ada Brook : They were bound to entertain soon. They can't have built that great house to sit by the fire and read.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Well, let them entertain their own sort. Heaven knows there are plenty to choose from.

• Marian Brook : Training orphans to be servants?

  Ada Brook : To save them from... something worse.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : There's no need to go into that.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Revolutions are launched by clever people with strong views and excess energy.

• Oscar Van Rhijn : Mama, you are incorrigible.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I take that as the highest praise.

• Marian Brook : Mrs. Chamberlain was at Mrs. Fane's charity gathering.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : Was she, by heavens? Ada, who else was there? Pickpockets? Newly released criminals?