Don't you ever get tired of that wretched tapestry? You're like Penelope waiting for Odysseus to get home.
Aunt Ada likes needlework.
I like ice cream. That doesn't mean I eat it twenty-four hours a day.
S2 E1You Don't Even Like Opera
Does your presence here mean we're friends again?
JAJohn Adams
Oscar, you and I have known each other far too long and much too well not to be friends.
Have you told your aunts your secret yet?
No. But I will.
When?
When I can't keep it secret any longer.
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?
Very much so.
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.
S2 E2Some Sort of Trick
My father wants me to wait until I fall in love.
How heartening! I never thought of Mr. Russell as a romantic.
LRLarry Russell
It's very early for you to be up.
It's very late for you to get home.
MBMaude Beaton
Paris is wonderful, apart from the Parisians.
S2 E3Head to Head
Your newfound piety may be put to good use after all.
HHenderson
Unions are stronger now, they will grow stronger still, and you will have to deal with them.
I am a man of business. And I have jobs to offer in my mills, in my factories, and on my railroads, and I pay the going rate. If your men don't want to work for me, then I suggest they step aside and make way for the many who do.
Betrayal is not like a case of influenza.
No, it feels more like a death sentence.
FMr. Forte
Mr. Dawson had a low opinion of how we give out communion.
What part of it was he criticizing?
FMr. Forte
The part where I offer communion to those he deems undeserving.
What you must have to put up with.
FMr. Forte
Let's just say some of God's children can be very tiresome.
OWOscar Wilde
I hope you enjoyed the play, Miss Russell.
Is "enjoy" the right word when a tsar is murdered, and the evening ends with the heroine stabbing herself?
OWOscar Wilde
So young, and already a critic.
S2 E4His Grace the Duke
Miss Beaton is keen to help spread the Christian word.
And how does that sit with you?
I gladly support good causes from the comfort of Fifth Avenue.
RFRev. Forte
Those flowers are for you, Ada Brook. No one else.
Why must I be the villain in every story?!
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