Keeping Up Appearances (TV Series)

What to Wear When Yachting (1992)

Patricia Routledge: Hyacinth

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Quotes 

• The TV Repairman : What exactly is wrong with your set, is it the picture or the sound?

  Hyacinth : It's neither. What I want *you* to do is to insert one of those little things that goes bleep over every expletive.

• [last lines] 

  Hyacinth : Emmet, Elizabeth, my nautical buffet has suffered a slight setback.

  Richard : I am going home.

  Hyacinth : We're all going home, Richard. And we'll buy some fish and chips.

• Hyacinth : Richard! I ORDER YOU!

• [first lines] 

  The TV Repairman : Good morning, madam. You the one with the wonky telly?

  Hyacinth : No, I am not the one with the wonky telly. I am the lady whose television requires adjusting.

  The TV Repairman : Oh. I see. Uh, may I come in?

  Hyacinth : *If* you promise not to brush against my walls. They've recently been redecorated up to and beyond British standards.

• Hyacinth : [Running along the bank after a runaway motorboat]  It's very tiring boating on foot!

• Hyacinth : [Referring to a neighbor she wants to impress]  Go slower, I want her to see my yachting cap.

  Richard : She'll probably think you're selling ice cream.

• Hyacinth : [Inhaling deeply]  Smell the air!

  Richard : It's only the river... it's not as though we're in the Roaring Forties!

  Hyacinth : Richard, I will NOT have you muttering mutinously!