Gladys Russell quotes from The Gilded Age

Oscar van Rhijn

I know there are men out there who are younger and richer than I am. But we would live well. You would choose your own friends, run your own house, manage your own life! Isn't that what you want?

Gladys Russell

Very much so.

Oscar van Rhijn

And I'm not a bully. I would never force you to echo my opinions, parrot all my views. I am happy to be henpecked, as long as you're doing the pecking. We'd have fun, Gladys. I know we would! I want us to be happy. Very happy. And I believe we could be. Don't answer now. Just know that I love and admire you more than I can say. More than I've ever felt for any other woman.

Gladys Russell

My father wants me to wait until I fall in love.

Marian Brook

How heartening! I never thought of Mr. Russell as a romantic.

I hope you enjoyed the play, Miss Russell.

Gladys Russell

Is "enjoy" the right word when a tsar is murdered, and the evening ends with the heroine stabbing herself?

So young, and already a critic.

Gladys Russell

Are you and Mrs. Astor friends or rivals?

Bertha Russell

The two are not exclusive.

Gladys Russell

You only want to marry me to save your position in society.

I'd prefer to say it's about maintaining our family's position in the history of my country. But you're right of course.