One Foot in the Grave (TV Series)
One Foot in the Algarve (1993)
Richard Wilson: Victor Meldrew
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Quotes
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Victor Meldrew : Surely you can't change a lightbulb if you've only got one arm?
Mrs Warboys : [Drunk] You can if you've still got the receipt.
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[Margaret and Victor are in a morgue to identify a body and there is only a human foot]
Victor Meldrew : What is this? A new version of Cinderella by David Lynch?
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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.
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Victor Meldrew : Yes, everyone else maybe melting to death on the roads but not us! Because we have a car with hair conditionor! I mean what in the name of sanity did they thing we wanted it for? To make sure that the roof rack was more shining and managable?
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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!