Patricia Routledge

I've only done what I've really wanted to burn up energy on. If you can't wake up in the morning and look…

— Patricia Routledge

I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that…

— Patricia Routledge

But it would be churlish of me not to appreciate what it's brought me. If a good number of people come into…

— Patricia Routledge

There's a fashion abroad generally to speak the language as badly as possible. I'm of a mind to start a society for…

— Patricia Routledge

We finished series four of 'Hetty Wainthropp', we were told there was going to be series five.

— Patricia Routledge

I had a voice - I had an instrument - I loved singing and I had an inspired singing teacher, Miss Sleigh.…

— Patricia Routledge

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values…

— Patricia Routledge

People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life.

— Patricia Routledge

I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.

— Patricia Routledge