The Gilded Age (TV Series)

A Long Ladder (2022)

Simon Jones: Bannister

Quotes 

• Monsieur Baudin : Uh, those are tomorrow's menus. I write out the final list, and Madam approves it before she goes up to dress.

  Bannister : I see. Heavens! Chicken soup for luncheon. That's not something with which I'm familiar.

  Church : Chicken soup?

  Bannister : Soup at luncheon. Or is it chilled?

  Monsieur Baudin : No. It's hot.

  Bannister : Well, well, every day you learn something. What's this? Trifle?

  Church : Don't you like trifle either?

  Bannister : It's not that exactly. We would think of it as a nursery dish. Still, one man's meat is another man's poison, as they say.

• Bannister : It is always so very interesting to learn how different people manage things.

• Bannister : But, of course, there's no right or wrong about these things. They're simply a matter of taste.

• Bannister : I would not lay the fruit knife and fork. They arrive with the fruit plate and the finger bowl. The pudding spoon and fork would not be above the place, but here. What is this? It seems to have got lost.

  Church : It's an oyster fork. It sits on its own spoon.

  Bannister : Does it indeed? Fancy that. Hmm. And colored glasses... how festive.

  Church : Do you not use colored glasses?

  Bannister : No. And we set them in a square, the English way, not in a line. I wonder they don't find themselves drinking their neighbor's wine.