The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Never the New (2022)

Morgan Spector: George Russell

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• Bertha Russell : Careful, that table belonged to King Ludwig of Bavaria.

  George Russell : He had it once. I've got it now.

• George Russell : You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

• George Russell : What about your old friends? You never see them now.

  Bertha Russell : I don't want my old friends. I want new friends.

• George Russell : Whatever her faults, she has imagination and taste... and nerve.

  Stanford White : She will need all three in New York.

• Bertha Russell : I've decided to give an at home.

  George Russell : And what does that mean?

  Bertha Russell : You know perfectly well. I'll send cards saying we'll receive after dinner on such and such an evening, and they're welcome to look in.

• Bertha Russell : George, we have to start somewhere. Everyone calls on Mrs. Vanderbilt now. They're seen everywhere.

  George Russell : What's that got to do with it?

  Bertha Russell : When his grandfather arrived in New York, no one would go near him.

  George Russell : That was half a century ago. What are you saying? We have to keep this up for 50 years, and then someone may drop by?

  Bertha Russell : Things move faster nowadays.

  George Russell : That's a relief.

• George Russell : I'd just like you to be happy. And I know my loving you is not enough.

  Bertha Russell : It's almost enough.

• George Russell : I wish you'd invited some of the old crowd. The house will be full of strangers.

  Bertha Russell : We're headed in a different direction now, George. We're joining a different club.

  George Russell : Mm. Even if they don't want us to be members?

  Bertha Russell : Why shouldn't we be members? I'm tired of letting all those dull and stupid women dictate the way we live our lives. Why, you've done more for this city in ten years than their families have achieved in centuries.

• George Russell : So... are you ready for your trial by hospitality?

• George Russell : Things are changing, Bertha.

  Bertha Russell : They can't change fast enough for me.

• George Russell : And you've come a long way. Even I can see that.

  Bertha Russell : I don't want to come a long way. I want to go all the way.

• George Russell : What was it your mother used to say? 'You are the only one of my children who is worthy of my dreams.'

  Bertha Russell : Much good did those dreams do her. She had nothing while she lived and nothing when she died.

• George Russell : I may be a bastard, Mr. Thorburn, but you are a fool, and of the two, I think I know which I prefer.