The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Stand by Your Man (1990)

Rue McClanahan: Blanche Devereaux

Quotes 

• Blanche Devereaux : Blanche Devereaux never goes out with another woman's husband. Oh, except for that one time, but, now, that was not my fault. She was pronounced dead. Those paramedics never give up.

• Blanche Devereaux : I certainly did grow up around some ignorant people. Do you know what horrible thing the folks in my neck of the woods did once when I was a young-un?

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : You mean besides using phrases like 'neck of the woods' and 'young-un'?

  Blanche Devereaux : They burned books! The townspeople made a big pile of 'em out in front of the library, and they threw a torch on top. Only, Big Daddy was outraged. He fought his way through that crowd, clawed his way to the top of that pile, grabbed that lit torch, and turned to that crowd and said, "What are you people doin'? This is lunacy. You start a fire from the bottom!"

• Blanche Devereaux : [Rose wants to keep a puppy she has bonded with]  Rose, the answer is 'No'.

  Rose Nylund : Well, that's not fair. Last week you got to keep the boxboy who followed you home.

  Blanche Devereaux : There, you see, you don't need a dog. If you're lonely, get yourself a man.

  Rose Nylund : I don't want a man. I just want to come home from work and have someone jump up on my lap, and lick my face, and fetch a ball when I throw it.

  Blanche Devereaux : You can get a man to do that.

• Blanche Devereaux : [coming on to a man in the library]  Hi, whatcha readin'?

  Blanche Devereaux : [she looks at the spine of his book]  Ohhh, you must be a passionate man. 'Females to Fondle'.

  Ted : Well, it's volume seven of the encyclopedia.

• Blanche Devereaux : [on a first date, Blanche brings along Sophia and introduces her as her Grandmother]  Having a chaperon is an old Southern tradition. Grammy here brought me up since I was a child. She's the one who taught me how to put up peach preserves, and make my own clothes.

  Sophia Petrillo : We was po'.

  Ted : Blanche, you didn't strike me as the type who needed a chaperon.

  Blanche Devereaux : Well, as I said, it was a tradition. We Southern families stick together.

  Sophia Petrillo : We sho' do.

  Ted : Well, I suppose it's been nice, having someone look after you since you were young.

  Sophia Petrillo : I had to. When she was fifteen, I caught her under a pile of hillbillies. Picture it: me with a crowbar, prying cousins off, left and right.