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 | Season 10 / Episode 10: - The Long Good Thursday [last words of episode and series: the police have recaptured escaped prisoner Crazy Frankie, and have arrested Arthur for harboring a wanted criminal and Ray and Dave as Arthur's accomplices; they are all being driven away in a police van] Arthur Daley: Oh that is nice. That is very nice. I spend my life worrying about my fellow man, my friends, my family, making sure 'Er Indoors has a crust, pushing the economy of this septic isle ever upwards with my entrepreneurial skills. I don't have to apologise for that. Oh God, I've tried. Frankie: He don't half go on, don't he? Dave Harris: And on. Ray Daley: And on. Arthur Daley: I don't understand it. Why me? Why me? Have I not always conducted my life with decency and dignity? Have the time-honoured values of yesteryear deteriorated to the point that there is no place left in the black economy for men of vision? |
| Season 10 / Episode 6: - All Quiet on the West End Front Hargreaves: You're trying to steal my business. You're even using my patter. Arthur Daley: Oh, I think you'll find the English language is available for general use. |
| Season 10 / Episode 5: - The Immaculate Contraption Arthur Daley: But it's being picked up tomorrow! Hacksaw Harry: [sniggers] Right... Arthur Daley: Harry, I think you're beginning to mistake rising panic with leg-pulling. |
| Season 10 / Episode 3: - All Things Brighton Beautiful Sidney: A terrible thing happened. It started when I was told I had a terminal illness - in my body. Ray Daley: [puzzled] Well where else *could* you have it? |
| Season 10 / Episode 3: - All Things Brighton Beautiful Sidney: You have connections and Ray is a minder. I need protection. You've got to find and stop this madman for me. Arthur Daley: This could be very complicated. Sidney: I have funds. Arthur Daley: I need money up-front. Sidney: Are we talking cost? Arthur Daley: His life is in danger and he wants to negotiate. Sidney: Well shouldn't I haggle a little? Arthur Daley: Let me put it this way. Dying could ruin your living. |
| Season 10 / Episode 2: - Another Case of Van Blank Arthur Daley: What's French for "en-suite facilities"? |
| Season 10 / Episode 2: - Another Case of Van Blank Arthur Daley: How bad is it? Ray Daley: [dejectedly] They've left the Eiffel Towers. |
| Season 9 / Episode 10: - Cars and Pints and Pains DS Morley: Why is it that everyone seems to take such an instant dislike to me? Arthur Daley: Saves time. |
| Season 9 / Episode 9: - Last Orders at the Winchester Dave Harris: It don't seem right, somehow, conning the clergy. Arthur Daley: He's the one who married me and 'Er Indoors. I prefer to see it as settling an old score. |
| Season 9 / Episode 7: - How to Succeed in Business Arthur Daley: You make contact with your customer. Understand their needs. And then flog them something they could well do without. |
| Season 9 / Episode 7: - How to Succeed in Business Arthur Daley: Get your retaliation in first, Ray - basic rule of English fair-play. |
| Season 9 / Episode 6: - Gone with the Winchester Arthur Daley: Was it Dave you switched the chicken for the rat? Toby Jug Johnson: I'm surprised at you, Arthur. Code of the Backhanders? "No member shall blow the whistle on another member, even if that member's blown the whistle on another member." Remember? |
| Season 9 / Episode 2: - No Way To Treat A Daley Arthur Daley: Seventy quid? It's immoral charging for gas. God put gas on this earth for all of us. Gas Deliverer: Yeah, but God didn't put it in canisters and drive it round in a Transit, did he? |
| Season 9 / Episode 1: - I'll Never Forget Whats'ername Arthur Daley: I thought I'd gone in the back entrance to Smithfield. Dave Harris: It's the style these days, Arthur. I mean, they don't leave much to the imagination. Arthur Daley: An experience like that could haunt you for life. I remember as if it was yesterday dragging young Ray screaming out of "Bambi" when he was so high. Dave Harris: Well they *are* impressionable at that age. Arthur Daley: *He* wanted to stay. *I* didn't sleep properly for days. |
| Season 9 / Episode 1: - I'll Never Forget Whats'ername Arthur Daley: Dave and I will do what any Englishman would do in our position - cheat. |
 | Season 8 / Episode 13: - The Cruel Canal Arthur Daley: Don't judge others by your own low standards! |
 | Season 8 / Episode 5: - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Jeff: Arthur. Arthur Daley: Jeff. Jeff: How's 'Er Indoors? Arthur Daley: Much the same. How's yours? Jeff: Similar. Reporter: Excuse me, I'm from the Sun newspaper, would you like to say a few words? Jeff: Certainly, son. Piss off and you! |
| Season 8 / Episode 5: - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner DC Park: You poor bastard. Joanna: Save the sympathy, Constable. Come on, search him for the keys to the lock-up, I'll get some copies cut. Then I suggest you get in your car and vanish. I'll take him to Casualty. DC Park: Poor sod doesn't stand much of a chance with you on his back, does he? |
 | Season 8 / Episode 1: - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Entrepreneur Arthur Daley: Did you deliver those dresses to Morry all right? Ray Daley: Yeah. Arthur Daley: D'you get paid? Ray Daley: Yeah. Arthur Daley: Well thank God for that. Arthur Daley: What's that? A cheque? A bloody Gregory? Don't you realise why he's called Bouncing Morry? I wish your parents had gone in for goldfish instead of childen. Then when they got tired of them, they could have flushed them down the loo. |
 | Season 7 / Episode 2: - Days of Fines and Closures Arthur Daley: [reading from catalogue] "Late 18th century. Estimated sale price seven hundred and fifty pounds." Terry McCann: Seven hundred and fifty nicker? You can get them in washable plastic for three gallons of four-star! Arthur Daley: You are unlikely to find washable plastic being offered for sale in the Clapham Auction Rooms. |
| Season 7 / Episode 2: - Days of Fines and Closures Arthur Daley: Your modern entrepreneur is constantly gazing into the crystal ball of opportunity. Terry McCann: And what do your crystal balls tell you about that then, eh? Is there gonna be a big rush on firewood? Arthur Daley: No, Terry. That is... that is "an Indian ebony and porcupine quill workbox, nineteenth century". Described as "distressed". Terry McCann: Distressed? Arthur Daley: Yes, that is a term they use in the auctioneering world. Terry McCann: Yeah, loosely translated as "knackered"! Arthur Daley: As with most things in this life, Terry, it is in the eye of the beholder. One man's firewood is another man's porcupine wotsisname. |
 | Season 6 / Episode 7: - Minder on the Orient Express Terry: Did you clock the geezer with the gold Hampsteads? |
 | Season 6 / Episode 4: - Arthur is Dead, Long Live Arthur Arthur Daley: Get hold of my accountant, Andrew, a bit cunning. He'll know what's going on. I don't want my death to ruin my living! |
 | Season 5 / Episode 9: - Around the Corner Rycott: Well, well, Charley, what a coincidence. Chisholm: I don't believe this. Rycott: I don't know how you come to be here Charley... Chisholm: My name is Albert! |
 | Season 4 / Episode 10: - Get Daley! Arthur Daley: [writing] Dear Terrence. No. Terry. Dear Terry, I am writing this in case something happens to me. You would laugh if you could see me now, but what with having this operation, I seem to have gone a bit morbid. This is just to say that you have been like a son to me, even though at times I might have been a bit inconsiderate. But you know what the pressures on the entrepreneur are, in this day and age. I hope you have enjoyed our long association, as much as I have, despite the vicississitu... vicississi... ups and downs. Good luck. Your pal, Arthur. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 6: - If Money Be the Food of Love, Play On Detective Sergeant Ronald 'Kenny' Rycott: [exasperated] You know, inheriting you from Sergeant Chisholm is not dissimilar to inheriting death duties. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 5: - The Car Lot Baggers Nathan Loveridge: You want to fight me? I've taken on ten like you. Terry McCann: So one shouldn't worry you, then. |
 | Season 4 / Episode 4: - Sorry Pal, Wrong Number Arthur Daley: [a gang of kids have taken over the public telephone boxes at the train station, which Arthur's using as part of his race tipping scam with J.J. Mooney, they're refusing to budge. One of the kids cheeks Arthur and Arthur walks over to give the nipper a piece of his mind] Cheeky beggar, I'll have him! Arthur Daley: [Another boy on a BMX bike flies by almost knocking Arthur over] Oi! Has he got a licence for that? Come on, Terry, get them out! Terry McCann: How? Arthur Daley: How? With violence that's how! Kick 'em up the arse |
 | Season 4 / Episode 3: - High Drains Pilferer Arthur Daley: It was a perfectly innocent enquiry. You can't apprehend a man for that. Detective Sergeant Albert 'Charlie' Chisholm: Arthur, the last time you made an innocent enquiry, you were still waiting for your teeth to come through - so that you could start lying through them! |
 | Season 4 / Episode 1: - Rocky Eight And A Half Arthur Daley: The world is your lobster, my son. |
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