One Foot in the Grave (TV Series)

Rearranging the Dust (1995)

Richard Wilson: Victor Meldrew

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Victor Meldrew : You were always my first choice.

  Margaret Meldrew : Was I? You've never said that before.

  Victor Meldrew : No, well.

  Margaret Meldrew : Oh, I suppose there's lots of things you never say. That you think about saying and something always crops up. Life goes on. Somehow you never quite get round to putting it into words.

• [first lines] 

  Victor Meldrew : One thousand five hundred and ninety... two.

  Margaret Meldrew : What?

  Victor Meldrew : Leaves on that plant. There was only one thousand five hundred and *three* when we came in.

  Margaret Meldrew : Don't talk such utter drivel.

  Victor Meldrew : I'm telling you!

  Margaret Meldrew : It's artificial.

  Victor Meldrew : Is it?

• Victor Meldrew : There's a spider in my flies. Look at that; there he goes, just struggling to get in through the buttonhole.

  Margaret Meldrew : You sure he's not struggling to get out?

  Victor Meldrew : There's nothing inside there that a spider wouldn't want to see.

  Margaret Meldrew : I expect. Be at home among the cobwebs.

• Victor Meldrew : I can only think of one thing worse than dying. And that's living forever. I mean, can you just imagine how terrible that would actually be?