The Golden Girls (TV Series)

The Impotence of Being Ernest (1989)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• Sophia : If I turn up my hearing aid to 10, I can hear a canary break wind in Lauderdale

• Dorothy Zbornak : A feather, that's a symbol, isn't it?

  Sophia : What're you talking about?

  Dorothy Zbornak : Oh don't play dumb with me, Ma, everything from Sicily means something: a black rose means a loved one is dying, a white carnation means a newborn is on the way, a dead rabbit means 'My husband knows, get out of town'.

  Rose : Knows what?

  Dorothy Zbornak : The score to South Pacific, Rose!

• Dorothy Zbornak : Ever since you got that feather in the mail, you've been acting like a spy, I'm surprised you didn't check the broom closet to see if someone was hiding in it.

  Sophia : Broom closet, right!

  [gets up] 

  Dorothy Zbornak : Ma, you're acting crazy.

  Blanche Devereaux : Well now, Dorothy, I happen to know that there *is* enough room in that broom closet for at least two people, and enough room left for a tray of cold cuts.