A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Daphne Basset, Duchess of Hastings: Do you ever wonder what Father might say on a day such as this? He was the only one you ever truly respected. The only one you ever listened to. If Papa was still here...

Viscount Anthony Bridgerton: You cannot know what he would say. Father had different words for me than he did for you. So please do not insult me with your baseless conjecture.

Daphne Basset, Duchess of Hastings: I have been here. And I have seen you at all stages. I witnessed you change the day he died. Do you know you did not even weep once? And you stopped laughing, altogether, in fact. It was as though you had become an entirely different person, consumed by the expectations of others.

Viscount Anthony Bridgerton: And what choice did I have? I changed so that our family might survive, so that you could be respectable enough to marry a duke. I am happy for you, Sister, but I'm not like you. I have never wished to succumb to the blind delight of being in love. I cannot so indulge myself.

Daphne Basset, Duchess of Hastings: You can choose to be happy. To follow the desires of your heart instead of pushing away any feeling that comes to the surface. It should not be a luxury, but a right to choose, to fight for the family that you want.

Viscount Anthony Bridgerton: I fight for the family that I have. And you will never understand because you were born to marry into another family while I was born to carry on the Bridgerton name. That is what outweighs anything else. It is rather easy to be selfish when you have no one else to whom you must answer.

Daphne Basset, Duchess of Hastings: I mourn for you, Brother. All of these decisions that you seem to make and then resent us for. Though they do not make you worthy of your family's respect. They simply make us pity you. Nothing more.