One Foot in the Grave (TV Series)

One Foot in the Algarve (1993)

Annette Crosbie: Margaret Meldrew

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Quotes 

• Margaret Meldrew : Perhaps you'd like to put her down, Victor? You've just saved the woman from choking, you don't want to kill her with the aftershave.

• Margaret Meldrew : I wasn't that keen on coming to Portugal at first. But now that we're about to leave, I never want to see the bloody place again as long as I live.

  Victor Meldrew : Yes, that's the good thing about a bad holiday, is going home, which is a positive joy. I remember the last time we went on holiday, we came home to find that our house had been demolished.

  Mrs Warboys : [laughs]  Yes, funny you can laugh about it now, right?

  Margaret Meldrew , Victor Meldrew : [They both stare at her angrily, not laughing] 

  Mrs Warboys : I suppose you can't really.

• Margaret Meldrew : [about Mrs Warboys]  I just cannot believe she was left there like that, in that condition. Next to a complete sheer drop. In total darkness!

  Victor Meldrew : Yes, well there's no point blaming yourself.

  [Margaret turns to him, stammering in anger and disbelief] 

  Margaret Meldrew : I wouldn't put it past you to have trussed her up in a sack and thrown her in!

  Victor Meldrew : Oh for goodness's sake!

  Margaret Meldrew : You have never liked the woman, as long as you've known her! To you, she was just a jibbering old bat who popped round twice a week to polish off our digestive biscuits!