Sue Roderick: Norma Moody

Quotes 

• [Mrs Moody offers her condolences that Oliver has been made redundant from the university] 

  Oliver : I expected it from the first moment.

  Mrs. Moody : You did?

  Oliver : A letter arrived from your husband inviting me to meet him at a sherry party. It was signed "T. H. MOODY".

  Mrs. Moody : Theodore Horatio. Family names, God help us.

  Oliver : But don't you see? It's an anagram of "THY DOOM". "Oliver," I said to myself, "Prepare to meet thy doom"... and I did.

• Oliver : I'm feeling the chill of middle age. I need the warmth of a good woman.

  Mrs. Moody : Bullshit.

  [she walks away] 

  Oliver : Also, I know something very funny about sex, and you'll never know what it is.

• Mrs. Moody : And what would this old trivial quiz and crossword buff like as a leaving present?

  Oliver : Well, in the best of all possible worlds, you.

  Mrs. Moody : Me?

  Oliver : When your husband introduced us at the sherry party, he said "This is my wife, Norma".

  Mrs. Moody : Not another anagram?

  Oliver : "Fire woman". You give off heat, Mrs Moody. Which is more, alas, than I can say for your husband.

  Mrs. Moody : I'm not on offer.

  Oliver : What *is* on offer?

  Mrs. Moody : A set of matching suitcases.

• Oliver : Imagine, once upon a time, typewriters were made in Great Britain.

  Mrs. Moody : Imagine typewriters.