Keeping Up Appearances (TV Series)
A Celebrity for the Barbecue (1993)
Patricia Routledge: Hyacinth
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Quotes
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Richard : Why can't I have my usual cornflakes?
Hyacinth : This is not a cornflake establishment.
Richard : Whunh. It always has been!
Hyacinth : Perhaps in the days before this exclusive European high fibre breakfast cereal was made available. Now it's very nutritious and highly recommended.
Richard : By whom?
Hyacinth : The Dutch Royal Family.
Richard : The Dutch Royal Family!
Hyacinth : There's a crest on the packet.
Richard : Oh, Hyacinth. I wish you'd stop buying things because there's a crest on the packet.
Hyacinth : So in future, when people ask you what you have for breakfast, don't say cornflakes. Tell them, quite truthfully, that you eat an exclusive European high fibre breakfast cereal.
Richard : [through clenched teeth] With a crest on the package.
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Hyacinth : Is there anyone anywhere who can pass me a drink?
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[first lines]
Hyacinth : Sonja Barker-Finch.
[turns on the light and sits up]
Hyacinth : How much longer are you going to sleep, dear?
Richard : Probably not a lot, I suspect.
Hyacinth : Well, I haven't slept a wink.
Richard : I heard you snoring.
Hyacinth : I've had a night of mental anguish.
Richard : Didn't sound like mentally anguished snoring.
Hyacinth : You know me, Richard. I haven't a snobbish bone in my body. But I do find it irritating that those Barker-Finches at Number 23 should attract *the* Douglas Chater to their barbecue.
Richard : Uh, the Douglas what?
Hyacinth : Chater. They had him at their barbecue.
Richard : Now what did he taste like?
Hyacinth : Now don't be silly, dear. They had him at their barbecue and of course she can't stop telling everybody. I cannot abide people who run around making a meal out of their little social triumphs.
