Notable quotes from Coronation St.

"Elsie Tanner's 'eart is where a fella's wallet is — and the bigger the wallet the more 'eart she's got"

— Hilda Ogden.

"I can never drown my sorrows, they're such good swimmers"

— Audrey Roberts.

"If you're not being talked about in the pub then you're not worth serving"

— Betty Turpin.

"Don't call me ridiculous. Don't ever call me ridiculous"

— Mike Baldwin

"You have the sort of face that could smirk in an east wind"

— Deirdre to Ken Barlow.

Janice Battersby explains her new hairdo to Les: "I was experimenting." Les Battersby: "So was Frankenstein, only he had more luck."

"If I live to be a hundred, I'll never understand women. You give them a chance for best rump and do they take it? No, they go for a bit of scrag end"

— Fred Elliott learns Rita is going out with Alec Gilroy.

"This is England, we don't have any of that rights to happiness stuff over here"

— Alec Gilroy.

"I may be a supermarket manager but prick me and do I not bleed?"

— Reg Holdsworth.

"Every time Jack looks in the mirror he sees a Chippendale"

— Bet Lynch.

"I like old Ena but I think Granada ought to kill the serial while it is still at the top instead of waiting for people to get sick of it"

— Violet Carson (aka Ena Sharples), 1965