Upon being told that he had the chance to lodge a complaint at the appropriate time:
"Appropriate time? The first I knew about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him if he'd come to clean the windows and he said no he'd come to demolish the house. He didn't tell me straight away of course. Oh no. First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver. Then he told me."
Upon being questioned as to whether or not he had seen the Council's plans to demolish his house:
"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."
When Ford asks Arthur if he's busy :
"Am I busy?" exclaimed Arthur. "Well, I've just got all these bulldozers and things to lie in front of because they'll knock my house down if I don't, but other than that ... well, no not especially, why?"
When Ford asks Arthur how he would react if he were to say that he was actually an alien:
"This must be Thursday," said Arthur musing to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
"I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
Upon finding himself inside the Vogon ship:
"If I asked you where the hell we were," said Arthur weakly, "would I regret it?"
After Ford explains where they are :
"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of."
When Ford explains to Arthur that the Earth has just boiled away into space:
"Look," said Arthur, "I'm a bit upset about that."
Arthur complaining to Ford about their current situation:
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxication in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
Arthur 's complaining continues:
"This is terrific," Arthur thought to himself, "Nelson's Column has gone, McDonald's have gone, all that's left is me and the words Mostly Harmless. Any second now all that will be left is Mostly Harmless. And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so well."
When Ford and Arthur conclude that they must be going mad:
"Nice day for it."
"Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
"Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?"
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