The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Quotes

Arthur Dent

Ford Prefect

Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

Ford Prefect: Why, what did she tell you?

Arthur Dent: I don't know, I didn't listen.

Arthur Dent

[...] But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month.

Arthur Dent: Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything.

But the plans were on display ...

Arthur Dent: On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.

That's the display department.

Arthur Dent: With a flashlight.

Ah, well the lights had probably gone.

Arthur Dent: So had the stairs.

But look, you found the notice didn't you?

Arthur Dent: Yes, yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.