Keeping Up Appearances (TV Series)

Driving Mrs Fortescue (1991)

Clive Swift: Richard

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Quotes 

• Richard : [repeated line, regarding Mrs. Fortescue]  She's lethal with that stick!

• [last lines] 

  Mrs. Fortescue : You have very interesting relatives, Mrs. Bucket.

  Hyacinth : It's Bouquet. Yes, they are. Very... interesting.

  [a man wearing a medieval dress waves at them] 

  Richard : Wasn't that Bruce!

  Hyacinth : Keep your eyes on the road, dear.

• Hyacinth : Now, conversation: what do you usually talk about in the car?

  Richard : Well, I think you'll find that usually you talk and I listen.

  Hyacinth : [pause]  Then let's not tamper with a winning system.

• Hyacinth : Watch the cyclist.

  Richard : I'm watching the cyclist.

  Hyacinth : She shouldn't be riding a bicycle wearing skirts as short as that.

  Hyacinth : [Richard is looking over to the side]  Keep your eyes on the road, dear.

  Richard : [looking in the rear-view mirror]  But you just told me to watch the cyclist.

  Hyacinth : Just watch the road.

• Richard : [outside the pub Mrs. Fortescue just went into]  Isn't that Onslow's bicycle?

  Hyacinth : Oh goody. Yes, why not? Let it be Onslow's bicycle.

• [Richard has waved to Onslow who rides past on his bicycle] 

  Mrs. Fortescue : Who was that?

  Hyacinth : [pretending she hadn't noticed]  Who was what?

  Mrs. Fortescue : That man your husband was waving at.

  Hyacinth : Oh he wasn't waving Mrs Fortescue, he was just signalling a turn.

  Richard : Much more of this and I think I'll have a turn!

  Mrs. Fortescue : Didn't look like anyone I would expect you to know.

  Hyacinth : [obviously pleased]  How very perceptive of you to recognise that, Mrs Fortescue.