Bert: Don't know how that ratface could do 'owt like that.
Arthur Seaton: Cause she's a bitch and a whore, she's got no heart in her - she's a swivel-eyed get.
Bert: She wants pole-axing.
Arthur Seaton: Some people would nark on their mother, we're living in a jungle - we are and all. That bloke was a spineless bastard though, he should've run.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Bert: You know I told you to lay off weeks ago, not that took a blind bit of notice.
Arthur Seaton: Well you've gotta enjoy yourself.
Bert: You've got to keep your feet on the ground.
Arthur Seaton: I don't see much juice in that. You see people settle down and before they know where they are they've kicked the bucket.
Bert: It ain't altogether like that.
Arthur Seaton: No, I now. It would be though if you didn't watch it.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Jack: You're too much of a troublemaker, you should take things as they come and enjoy life.
Arthur Seaton: I do enjoy life, just because I'm not like you don't think I don't.
Jack: I'll see you sometime.
Arthur Seaton: Yeah.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: Brother here for long?
Jack: Fortnight. There's one thing about him though, you know, he'll always help me if I'm in any sort of trouble. If anyone does owt' against me, I can always rely on him. I was with him and his pal and we set on a bloke... never want to do 'owt like that again.
Arthur Seaton: Aye but people like that should be careful though, never to pick on the wrong bloke. I saw a fight like that once, this was with two soldiers an' all. They set on to a bloke and he wiped the floor with the both of them. It was horrible, blood all over the place, I had to turn me 'ead away.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: Come in, oh come in duck, this is a surprise.
Doreen: I came to see how you were.
Arthur Seaton: I'll be as right as rain in a day or two.
Doreen: This is a nice room, are all them clothes 'yorn.
Arthur Seaton: Ah, just a few rags.
Doreen: They must have cost you a pretty penny.
Arthur Seaton: I get good wages.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: Don't let the bastards grind you down!


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: Get out, come on, or else you'll get another one. In your fat gut this time, go on, take laughing boy with you.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: How's Johnny getting on in Australia?
Aunt Ada: Well you know Arthur, I reckon Johnny's a lot better off out there, he never did well in this country, did he.
Arthur Seaton: No, he always was a good worker though, I know that.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: I dunno, work next week. I'll be hard at it, sweating me guts out at that lathe. It's a hard life if you don't weaken.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: I got beat up by 2 soldiers.
Doreen: What for?
Arthur Seaton: Well I've been knocking around with a married woman and her husband set them onto me, 2 onto 1, so they beat me. I'dve flattened them if they'd been one at a time.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning