Coronation Street (1960– )

Maggie Jones: Blanche Hunt, Maggie Monks, Policewoman

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Quotes 

• [on Christmas Day] 

  Blanche Hunt : This turkey is dry enough to choke a camel.

• [talking about café owner Roy Cropper and his transsexual wife Hayley] 

  Blanche Hunt : He's a looney and she's a man.

• [on hearing that Peter and Leanne want their own bar] 

  Blanche Hunt : An alcoholic and an arsonist open a bar? Sounds like the start of a joke.

• Blanche Hunt : Good looks are a curse, Deirdre. You and Kenneth should count yourselves lucky.

• [talking about Liz McDonald] 

  Blanche Hunt : Skirt no bigger than a belt, too much eyeliner, and roots as dark as her soul.

• [talking about café owner Roy Cropper whom she thinks is a bit simple] 

  Blanche Hunt : He looks like he should be crayoning summat.

• [talking about Gail] 

  Blanche Hunt : Never happy unless she's got someone's hands round her throat.

• [at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting] 

  Blanche Hunt : I've never heard such self-indulgent whinging in all my life. Is there some correlation between how boring you are and how much you drink?

• [talking about Eileen's father, Colin Grimshaw] 

  Blanche Hunt : I'd cut off his whatnots wi' a pair of garden shears, me. The rustier the better.

• Blanche Hunt : [to Tracy]  You're remarkably chipper. Trod on a snail?

• Blanche Hunt : [to Ken Barlow]  You're going to have to learn to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others, Ken, or you're going to have a very miserable old age.

• [Blanche, their landlady, is kicking Frankie and Danny out of their house, without notice] 

  Frankie Baldwin : You can't do that. It's illegal!

  Blanche Hunt : Then sue me!

  [Blanche slams her front door shut and Frankie looks through the letterbox] 

  Frankie Baldwin : You cannot not kick us out of our house, you looney!

  Danny Baldwin : Get up, Frankie. She won't hear you - she's as deaf as a post!

  Blanche Hunt : I heard that!