Gilded Age Quotes: Set in the 1880s, The Gilded Age focuses on the life of a young woman who witnessed the inequality between the rich and the poor.
The Gilded Age Quotes
1- “Charity has two functions in our world, my dear. The first is to raise funds for the less fortunate, which is wholly good. The second is to provide a ladder for people to climb into society who do not belong there.” -Agnes van Rhijn
2- “I don’t want to come a long way. I want to go all the way.” -Bertha Russell
3- “I like to do the right thing. If I don’t lose any money by it.” -George Russell
4- “I may be a bastard, but you are a fool, and of the two, I think I know which I prefer.” -George Russell
6- “If you’re going to do a thing, you might as well do it properly.” -Bertha Russell
7- “People want to know you when you’re a success. It’s when you fail they turn their backs.” -Watson
8- “Never break your own moral code, for that is the soundest guide any of us can have.” -Ada Brook
9- “Never overestimate your own power. It’s always a mistake.” -Agnes van Rhijn
10- “I know he feels what he thinks is love, but I disagree with his definition.” -Peggy Scott
11- “Once people learn that my second offer is invariably my last, they won’t, as a rule, refuse me. Over the years, I expect to save a lot more money than I am spending now.”-George Russell
12- “Persistence is the key to everything. Patience and persistence.” -Bertha Russell
13- “Revolutions are launched by clever people with strong views and excess energy.” -Agnes van Rhijn
14- “To act on impulse is to make oneself a hostage to ridicule.” -Agnes van Rhijn
15- “Revolutions are launched by clever people with strong views and excess energy.” -Agnes van Rhijn
16- “We don’t have a choice in the matter. We must go where history takes us” -Bertha Russell
17- “Why should I align myself with either party when I don’t have the right to vote?” -Peggy Scott
18- “You don’t know anything about me, about my life, about my situation. I live in a different country from the one you know.” -Peggy Scott
19- “You need to know we only receive the old people in this house, not the new. Never the new.”-Agnes van Rhijn
20- “Do people like that bring their daughters out? I thought they just sold them to the highest bidder.” -Agnes van Rhijn
21- “It seems to me the ship is sinking. We must follow the example of the rats.” -Agnes van Rhijn
22- “I’m not concerned with facts. Not if they interfere with my beliefs.” -Agnes van Rhijn
23- “If you don’t want to be disappointed, only help those who help themselves.” -Agnes van Rhijn
24- “Life is like a bank account. You cannot write a check without first making a deposit.” -Bertha Russell
25- “You must meet the right people in the right way.” -Agnes van Rhijn
26- “There is no challenge you are not equal to, my dear.” -Mr. George Russell
27- “You’ve made it once. You can make it again if you have to.” -Mrs. Bertha Russell
28- “You are too reasonable to live.” -Mrs. Aurora Fane
29- “If you won’t let me go into society, mother, I must find some society for myself.” -Miss Gladys Russell
30- “You have a good heart. But I run my own life. Is that clear?” -Miss Peggy Scott
31- “You’ve just discovered injustice. I’ve lived with it my whole life.” -Miss Peggy Scott
32- “Sometimes it’s hard to be quite sure what is happening now.” -Miss Marian Brook
33- “We don’t have a choice in the matter, Mr. McAllister. We must go where history takes us.” -Mrs. Bertha Russell
34- “My mother wants me to have everything — except a life.” -Oscar Van Rhijn
35- “Life’s quite serious enough, without any help from me.” -Mr. John Adams
36- “Whoever achieved great things without taking a chance?” -Mrs. Russell
37- “I have no fear of scandal. I’m a walking scandal as it is.” -Mrs. Chamberlain
