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[repeated line]
Alf Stewart: Stone the flamin' crows!

[Alf's crab "Claws" has been stolen]
Alf Stewart: Oh, I should have known, I should have known! He was out there on his own like that, a prime target!
Celia Stewart: Alfred, who on earth are you talking about?
Alf Stewart: Claws!
Celia Stewart: Santa Claus?
Alf Stewart: Oh, don't be so stupid, Celia! Claws the crab! Someone's stolen him!
Celia Stewart: Oh, don't be ridiculous, Alfred. Why would anyone want to steal a crab?
Alf Stewart: Well, I don't know! That's what I keep asking myself. To make matters worse, the flamin' outboard motor packed-in and I had to row all the way back. I'm gonna be stiff as a board tomorrow!

Kirsty Sutherland: How's Matilda?
Kim Hyde: All right, no thanks to me.
Irene Roberts: Oh, will you give it a rest!

Morag Bellingham: Well, if it isn't the young man who insulted me on the beach a few days ago.

Noah Lawson: It's Leah. She's gone into labour.
Irene Roberts: What?
Alf Stewart: Hogan's Ghost!

Donald Fisher: Sophie. Maybe you could just refresh our memories and read the Elliot passage for us again.
Sophie Simpson: [hoarse] Oh, I can't, sir.
Donald Fisher: Oh? And why not, may I ask?
Sophie Simpson: Sore throat from last night.
Donald Fisher: What?
Sophie Simpson: You know, from throwing up.
Donald Fisher: Oh, yes, all right, Sophie, all right. Spare me the details. I suppose we'll have the privelage of hearing your gulsid tones one of these days.

Josh West: Are you just using me for my car?
Dani Sutherland: And for your lips. But mainly for your car.

Alf Stewart: [after Don is given the wrong olympic torch] Don! Stop! It's the wrong flamin' Flame!

Morag Bellingham: [to Colleen] What the hell are you talking about you stupid woman?

Alf Stewart: [after arguing with Travis] Go, You left-wing Greenie Yahoo!

Max Sutherland: [after being knocked out by Henry in a Boxing Match at School] Did I win?

Irene Roberts: [frequent expression of exasperation] Gawd Save Ireland.

Kit Hunter: My Dad always said, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

Sally Keating Fletcher: [telling off Jack who's trying to make himself Taller] This Family's falling apart and all you're worried about is how tall you are!

Alf Stewart: [depressed after Ailsa's death] I don't care if the flamin' diner sinks to the bottom of the sea

Pippa Fletcher: [imitating Alf] He's talkin' through his flamin'hat!

[trying to put together a chair with a then-alcoholic Irene]
Alf Stewart: [shouting] You couldn't read instructions if they were written a mile high in whiskey bottles, and that's saying something!

[to a saxaphone player]
Alf Stewart: Oi! Cut that out immediately!

[Adam is trying to catch a killer shark]
Adam Cameron: [to Steven] Should have known you'd shoot your mouth off.
Andrew Foley: Yeah, well it's just as well somebody did! Now what the hell do you think you're playing at?
Adam Cameron: It's called fishing.
Andrew Foley: It's called idiocy! You don't know the first thing about sharks!

[to "Australian Idol" finalist Paulini]
Colleen Smart: I voted for you, Paulini, and so did Lancey! You're not a loser to us!

Colleen Smart: What if their plane's hijinked? You'll never forgive yourself!

Sarah Thompson: [after a Particularly Bad Hairdo] I look like Ronald McDonald and Shirley Temple rolled into one!

Tom Nash: [Travis helps Gypsy up after she falls during rollerblading and Tom jumps to conclusions, not knowing who Travis is] What are you, the local pervert or something?
Joel Nash: I think you might find, kids, that this is your uncle.

Colleen Smart: I couldn't bear to spend my last days surrounded by boiled cabbage and incompetence pads!

Josie Russell: Irene?
Irene Roberts: Eh?
Josie Russell: Could you get Tasha to sit down and talk to me, please?
[Irene scoffs]
Josie Russell: I just want her to realise that this whole resort thing isn't personal, it's just a job.
Irene Roberts: Yeah, well I'm sorry, but I can't help you.
Josie Russell: You can't or you won't?
Irene Roberts: Both. You know, even if I wanted to, which I don't, there's no way Tasha's going to listen to anything you have to say.

Alf Stewart: He's as crooked as a dog's hind leg!

Alf Stewart: You've been drinking!
Jesse McGregor: Look, mate, it's none of your business.
Alf Stewart: I'll make it my flamin' business if you're gonna go out serving the customers half-sloshed!

Alf Stewart: If you ever speak to my granddaughter again like the way you did before, I'll be all over you like a cheap suit!
Jesse McGregor: Is that a fact?
Alf Stewart: You'd better flamin' believe it!
Peter Baker: Excuse me, sorry to interrupt.
Alf Stewart: [to Jesse] What have you done now?
Jesse McGregor: Keep out of it!

Colleen Smart: Oh, and I wouldn't put it past him to have thrown that Mongolian cocktail as well!
Leah Patterson: Yeah, well the police have cleared him of throwing that *molitov* cocktail.

Josie Russell: I beg your pardon?
Morag Bellingham: As well you should!

[about the now-homeless Jesse]
Colleen Smart: You know what they say - he's made his bed, and now he'll have to lay under it... or under a bridge! That's what they say about those hobos, isn't it?

Robbie Hunter: [on the sands Resort Development Protest] We can't lie down in front of Bulldozers!
Martha McKenzie: Why not?
Robbie Hunter: Because I don't want my pants pressed while I'm wearing them!

Alf Stewart: One chocolate shake and a Simpson.
Curtis Reed: A What?
Alf Stewart: An OJ!

Diana Fraser: Let's hope Chloe keeps the same consistency.
Lachlan Fraser: Mum, she's not a bowl of custard!

Sally Keating Fletcher: Are you and James getting married?
Chloe Richards: [sarcastically] No, me and Alf.

Morag Bellingham: Donald, how lovely to see you.
Donald Fisher: Morag, you almost make that sound believable.

Josh West: Morag!
Morag Bellingham: Mrs. Bellingham to you!
Josh West: Er, yes... Care for a drink?
Morag Bellingham: No, thank you, I only drink with friends.

Lance Smart: [miserable] Hey, Marty, what're you doing?
Martin Dibble: What does it look like? It's called packing.
Lance Smart: Well... why?
Martin Dibble: I don't know, 'cause that's what they call it!

Graham Walters: [after marrying Amanda] A bottle of your finest bubbly, please!
Alf Stewart: Oh, got something to celebrate, do you?
Graham Walters: Yes, we do. Everybody, I'd like to introduce Mrs. Amanda Walters.
[Alf, Irene and Colleen stare in shock]
Graham Walters: We just couldn't wait to share our love for each other.
Alf Stewart: Well... Let me be the first to congratulate you.
Irene Roberts: [nods slowly] Yeah, that's... wow.
Graham Walters: Colleen?
[Colleen simply stares, then downs the rest of her drink]
Colleen Smart: Wait until Madge Wilkins hears about this!
[storms out]

Colleen Smart: You know what they say, Every clown has a silver lining.
Irene Roberts: Colleen, You're an idiot.

Beth Hunter: [about Robbie] I went out to get the paper and look who followed me home. Can we keep him?

Colleen Smart: Well, it isn't hard to figure out what's going on, Maximus. I wasn't born yesterday!
Max Sutherland: You can say that again. I mean, you're very smart, Mrs. Smart.

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