Keeping Up Appearances (TV Series)

Daisy's Toyboy (1990)

Patricia Routledge: Hyacinth

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Hyacinth : You quite sure my milk went into a clean bottle?

  [he shows her his hands] 

  Hyacinth : Very good. I *do* like a milkman with clean fingernails. You may bring an extra yoghurt tomorrow. You see how cleanliness pays.

  The Milkman : An extra yoghurt. Wow! What flavour?

  Hyacinth : Surprise me.

  The Milkman : I'd love to.

  Hyacinth : [a dog barks]  There's that dreadful dog again. He's always coming into my garden and making gestures.

  The Milkman : I can understand that.

• Hyacinth : Of course, if you hadn't been gardening you could have come in at the front.

  Liz : I had changed my shoes and washed my hands.

  Hyacinth : What I always do when I've been gardening is change my shoes and wash my hands.

• Hyacinth : *Do* sit down, Elizabeth; make yourself at home.

  Hyacinth , Liz : No, not there, dear. I like to face the window.