- Margaret Meldrew: [after finding a dead cat in the freezer] I've come over all cold!
- Victor Meldrew: *You've* come over all cold?
- Margaret Meldrew: You know he can't smell a thing Jean, not since that accident up his left nostril last Summer.
- Mrs. Warboys: Ah well, that was asking for trouble wasn't it. You should never try and sniff a live wasp Mr Meldrew. It's a well known fact.
- Victor Meldrew: I was not sniffing a live wasp. What do you think I am, some sort of village idiot? I was smelling a Rhododendron. I didn't see the wasp until...