Alan Bates: Oliver

Quotes 

• Oliver : [to Diane]  All I can promise you is comfort and a few very old jokes.

• Oliver : So, you've approved my credentials. Are we going to be together for all eternity?

  WPC Diane Priest : Till lunchtime.

• [Diane is questioning Oliver about himself, in the style of the TV programme "Mastermind"] 

  WPC Diane Priest : You have two minutes, starting from... now! Marital status?

  Oliver : Initially confused, later divorced.

  WPC Diane Priest : When?

  Oliver : Ten years ago on a Thursday.

  WPC Diane Priest : Children?

  Oliver : [long pause]  No.

  WPC Diane Priest : Reasons for divorce?

  Oliver : I didn't listen when she talked.

  WPC Diane Priest : Was she right?

  Oliver : Sorry, I wasn't listening.

  WPC Diane Priest : [exasperated]  Stop the clock!

• Oliver : This is The Information Age. "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in... information?"

• Oliver : Is it all right if I talk to strange men?

  Diane Priest : Only if they're VERY strange.

• Kevin : Murdering people is wrong, isn't it?

  Oliver : Most of the world's religions say thou shalt not do it. Some of them will kill you to prove their point.