25 Blanche Devereaux Quotes From The Iconic Character

Fans of the television show The Golden Girls or of Southern quotes will love these Golden Girls Blanche Southern quotes.

Blanche Devereaux is a fictional character created by Susan Harris for the television show The Golden Girls, which ran from 1985 through 1992.

The character was loosely based on Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois and, in the television show, was portrayed by actress Rue McClanahan.

Blanche is a Southern woman who considers herself a Southern belle after growing up on her family’s plantation in Georgia.

During the time of the show, Blanche is shown to be in her mid-fifties and having lost her late husband and the love of her life to a car accident a few years prior.

At this point in her life, Blanche is searching for a similar feeling of love that she had with her late husband.

As a result, she is man-hungry and is always with a different man.

Take a look at these Golden Girls Blanche Southern quotes to learn more about this fun character.

Best Blanche Devereaux Quotes

Check out some of Blanche’s best quotes!

1. “Oooh… aren’t you sweet.” — Blanche

2. “Flirting is part of my heritage.” — Blanche

3. “You would, Betty Crocker.” — Blanche

4. “My whole life is an open book.” — Blanche

5. “Eat dirt and die, trash.” — Blanche

6. “Why be a grape when you can be a raisin?” — Blanche

7. “I’m just a good old-fashioned gal looking for a good old-fashioned guy with a good old-fashioned wallet.” — Blanche

8. “I feel that you have backed me into a corner, and when I am backed into a corner, I come out fightin’ like a wildcat.” — Blanche

9. “I saw my entire life flash before my eyes, and I thought, ‘What a shame if I die now, I’m too young… and I’m wearing the wrong underwear.’” — Blanche

10. “That child over there is trying to steal my daddy away. She ain’t better but a tick on a slow-moving hound dog.” — Blanche

Golden Girls Blanche Devereaux Quotes About Beauty

Enjoy these Blanche quotes about beauty.

11. “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” — Blanche

12. “I take very good care of myself. I treat my body like a temple.” — Blanche

13. “Isn’t it amazing how I can feel so bad and still look so good?” — Blanche

14. “I once was told I bore a striking resemblance to Miss Cheryl Ladd… although my bosoms are perkier.” — Blanche

15. “Grandma Hollingsworth always said I was a little flighty… or was it a little floozy.” — Blanche

16. “Well, nobody ever believes me when I’m telling the truth. I guess it’s the curse of every devastatingly beautiful woman.” — Blanche

17. “You’ are undoubtedly the meanest, sickest person I’ve ever met! Not to mention the most unattractive.” — Blanche

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More Blanche Devereaux Quotes

Here are some more quotes from Blanche.

18. “I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, but easy isn’t one of them.” — Blanche

19. “I’m like a butterfly. Pretty to look at but hard to catch.” — Blanche

20. “I’ve been having a good time, and there wasn’t even a man in the room.” — Blanche

21. “The only way to be sure a man is faithful is to get him neutered.” — Blanche

22. “It’s not the men in my life that counts; it’s the life in my men.” — Blanche

23. “I’ve had so much plastic surgery when I die, they will donate my body to Tupperware.” — Blanche

24. “No one in my family has ever seen a psychiatrist… except, of course, when they were institutionalized.” — Blanche

25. “I’ve been searching for the perfect man since I was 18, and I’ve never found him. Maybe I’ve been looking for love in all the wrong gin joints.” — Blanche

Who Were Blanche’s Family Members?

Blanche Devereaux has five children from her marriage to her late husband, George Devereaux.

She was born in 1932 to parents Elizabeth-Ann Margaret Bennett and Curtis “Big Daddy” Hollingsworth.

She has two brothers and two sisters.

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