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

Arthur Seaton:
I'm out for a good time - all the rest is propaganda!

Doreen:
What did you do that for?

Arthur Seaton:
Dunno, just felt like it I suppose.

Doreen:
Maybe one of those houses will be for us.

Arthur Seaton:
I know.

Doreen:
You shouldn't throw things like that.

Arthur Seaton:
It won't be the last one I throw.

Arthur Seaton:
They have a TV set and a packet of fags, but they're both dead from the neck up.

Arthur Seaton:
Nine hundred and fifty four, nine hundred and fifty bloody five. Another four more and that's the lot for a Friday.

Arthur Seaton:
I'll have a fag in a bit, no use working every minute God sends. I could get through it in half the time if I worked like a bull, but they'd only slash my wages so they can get stuffed!

Brenda:
I believe you, thousands wouldn't.

Mousy Woman:
Eight pints already, he's having a good time ain't he!

Arthur Seaton:
What's your name then duck?

Doreen:
Doreen, rotten name ain't it.

Arthur Seaton:
What's the matter with it? Mine's Arthur, neither of them's up to much but it's not our fault, is it.

Arthur Seaton:
What do you do in the week Doreen, do you ever go to pictures?

Doreen:
Only on Wednesday, why?

Arthur Seaton:
That's funny, I go on Wednesday n'all. Which one you go to?

Doreen:
The Grimley Other Hall.

Arthur Seaton:
I'll see you next Wednesday then at 7.

Doreen:
Fast worker aren't you. All right then, but not on the back row.

Bert:
Aye I noticed that girl myself this morning, smashing bit of stuff. I shouldn't think she'd want to be seen with a madman like you though.

Arthur Seaton:
They all want a good time you can bet.

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.

Arthur Seaton:
Think of number one, share and share alike's no good.

Jack:
You wouldn't talk like that though if you won the pools.

Arthur Seaton:
Wouldn't I? I'd see the family right but nobody else. If I got a stack of begging letters like other blokes do, you know what I'd do with them?

Jack:
What?

Arthur Seaton:
Make a bonfire.

Arthur Seaton:
It's not the first time that bastard's called me a red though. Not that I wouldn't vote communist if I thought it would get rid of blokes like him.

Arthur Seaton:
That's what all those silly laws are for, to be broken by blokes like us.

Arthur Seaton:
You might cop it one of these days.

Brenda:
Of all the liars, you're the biggest I've ever known.

Arthur Seaton:
I always was a liar, a good 'un and all.

Brenda:
Liars don't prosper.

Brenda:
Hey Arthur, what a time we had last night.

Arthur Seaton:
It seems years... aye you're lovely Brenda.

Arthur Seaton:
Pour us some more tea duck, it's thirsty work falling down stairs.

Brenda:
Two ain't it.

Arthur Seaton:
You're good to me Brenda, love, and don't think I don't appreciate it.

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.

Aunt Ada:
He settled her though, threatened to chuck her oof the Trent Bridge. She thought it were better to settle for a quid a week out of court than get a good wash.

Bert:
You should have been with us.

Aunt Ada:
Our Ethel clipped with a bloke and he bought us drinks all round, whole gang of us.

Bert:
Aye, he must have got through a good 5 quid, soft bastard. Still he had a car so I suppose he could afford it.

Aunt Ada:
You can't beat a bit of fun, can you Arthur.

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.

Aunt Ada:
Them was rotten days.

Arthur Seaton:
I know, it wouldn't happen again though, I can tell you that.

Bert:
I was talking to a bloke the other day at the pit, he's always going on you know 'you can't beat the good old days'. So I got 'old of me pick and I says to him - 'you tell me anything else about them good old days as you call them and I'll split your stupid head open' - I would too.

Arthur Seaton:
I take a tip from the fishes, never bite unless the bait's good. I won't get married till I'm good and ready.

Arthur Seaton:
That's what all those silly laws are for, to be broken by blokes like us.

Jack:
You might cop it one of these days.

Aunt Ada:
Look at him, he can't take his eyes off that young girl over there.

Arthur Seaton:
Not me, I'm courting already. I was looking at the calendar.

Aunt Ada:
I believe you.

Doreen:
What's the black stuff you're drinking, it looks like treacle.

Arthur Seaton:
Beer and stout, try a drop.

Doreen:
No thanks, I think I tasted that once but it was horrible.

Arthur Seaton:
I'm not a boozer either but I'm going fishing this afternoon and I like a drop beforehand.

Arthur Seaton:
Where do you work then Doreen?

Doreen:
Harrison's, the hairnet factory, I've been there ever since I left school.

Arthur Seaton:
It costs too much to get married, a lump sum down and your wages a week for life.

Bert:
Most blokes ain't got 'owt else to work for, have they?

Arthur Seaton:
No. I have though. I work for the factory, income tax and the insurance already, that's enough for a bit. They're up you right, left and centre. After they've skinned you dry you get called up to the army and get shot to death.

Bert:
That's how things are Arthur, no good going crazy over it. All you can do is go on working and hope that some day something good will turn up.

Brenda:
Yes, yes it's yours right enough. Haven't done 'owt like that with Jack for a couple of months or more - and I don't want to I it I can tell you that now!

Arthur Seaton:
Have you tried 'owt, took 'owt I mean.

Brenda:
Yes, some pills, they didn't work. 30 bob they cost me, gone right down the drain.

Arthur Seaton:
God almighty.

Brenda:
He won't help you.

Bert:
Come on, what you frightened of, kiss won't hurt you.

Betty:
What do you think I am, I don't even know you.

Bert:
Well give us a kiss then you will.

Betty:
No, gerrof! Men are all the same.

Bert:
I'm different.

Betty:
Don't look like that to me.

Bert:
Well I am, I think you're a little cracker.

Brenda:
What do you think having a kid means? You're doped up and sick for 9 months, your clothes don't fit, nobody will look at you. One day you're yelling out and you've got a kid. That's not so bad but you've got to look after it for the rest of its life. You want to try it sometime.

Arthur Seaton:
Well if that's how you feel.

Brenda:
How do you expect me to feel.

Doreen's Mother:
Since when's he been your young man?

Doreen:
Not long.

Doreen's Mother:
He looks a bit rough if you ask me.

Betty:
Oh he's all right.

Doreen:
Well you don't know him yet, do you?

Doreen's Mother:
Not like you know him I don't suppose.

Doreen:
Well, anyway, I like him.

Arthur Seaton:
Look I'll go and see me Aunt Ada, she'll know what to do, she's had 14 kids of her own and I'm sure she's got rid of as many others.

Bert:
Did you get anywhere?

Arthur Seaton:
No, you?

Bert:
Nah, that Betty's barmy, she wouldn't le me get near her. Tell you, you've got to marry them these days before you get 'owt.

Arthur Seaton:
Not if they're already married.

Arthur Seaton:
I thought I'd come and see you, I'm a bit worried about something.

Aunt Ada:
Why, what would a good-looking chap like you have to worry about?

Arthur Seaton:
It's not that I'm worried Aunt Ada, I never worry - you know that. But it's this mate of mine at work, he's got this woman in trouble and he don't know what to do about it.

Aunt Ada:
That's a daft thing to do, couldn't he have been a bit more careful? Well he'll just have to face the music like our Dave did.

Arthur Seaton:
But isn't there something that could be done, I mean sometimes people get rid of it by taking things don't they?

Aunt Ada:
What do you know about that?

Arthur Seaton:
I read about it in Sunday papers.

Mrs. Bull:
I'll clout you one of these days!

Arthur Seaton:
Ta'ra fatty.

Arthur Seaton:
What's up with you?

Brenda:
Oh, stop it, you make too much fuss.

Arthur Seaton:
What's the matter with you tonight?

Brenda:
I'll tell you what's the matter with me Arthur, I'm pregnant, good and proper - and it's your fault.

Arthur Seaton:
Oh aye, bound to be my fault isn't it.

Brenda:
Well of course it is, you never take care, you just don't bother, always said this would happen one day.

Arthur Seaton:
What a wonderful Friday night.

Aunt Ada:
It's you, in't it, it's you that's in trouble.

Arthur Seaton:
Well it is if you want to know

Aunt Ada:
I once knew a woman who got sent to prison for doing something like that.

Arthur Seaton:
I thought you'd be able to help me.

Aunt Ada:
Thougth I'd be able to help you just like that. You brainless loon, you ought to have more bloody sense, can't expect to get out of fixes as easy as that.

Arthur Seaton:
I've got nobody else to turn to.

Aunt Ada:
Why don't you marry her if she's a nice girl.

Arthur Seaton:
She's already married.

Aunt Ada:
You are in a bloody fix aren't you.

Brenda:
Having a good time?

Arthur Seaton:
Not bad, I'm with some pals from work, had to come out or I'd go crackers, I've been worrying about you all week.

Brenda:
Well you can stop worrying.

Arthur Seaton:
Is it all right then, did you see that doctor?

Arthur Seaton:
Oh yeah, I went, I didn't stay.

Arthur Seaton:
What?

Brenda:
I've decided to have it and face whatever comes of it.

Arthur Seaton:
Why don't you leave him alone you old bag.

Mrs. Bull:
Cheeky young beggar!

Drunken Man:
Oh - let me go.

Arthur Seaton:
Walk off mate, nobody'll stop you.

Civil Defence Officer:
Don't put ideas in his head or you'll be in trouble.

Arthur Seaton:
You shut your bleeding rathole ratface, what good's it gonna do you handing him over to coppers?

Aunt Ada:
It's not right is it, I think men get away with murder.

Brenda:
They do, don't they.

Arthur Seaton:
I don't know that much.

Aunt Ada:
Don't be such a big 'ead - get cracking so I can talk to her. What's your name duck?

Brenda:
Brenda.

Doreen:
You know the girl at our firm?

Arthur Seaton:
Which one?

Doreen:
You know, Tina, the one in the photo.

Arthur Seaton:
What about her.

Arthur Seaton:
She got married yesterday, she looked ever so nice.

Arthur Seaton:
What was the bloke like, could you smell the drink - must've been drunk to get married.

Doreen:
You're in a rotten mood today.

Arthur Seaton:
I lost 5 quid at races.

Doreen:
Serves you right, you shouldn't waste your money.

Arthur Seaton:
It isn't wasted, I enjoy betting.

Arthur Seaton:
I don't care what you do with your money, 'nowt to do with me.

Doreen:
Well stop telling me off then.

Doreen:
I'm not telling you off, you don't think I'm bothered about you like that do you?

Arthur Seaton:
That's not what you said in pictures just now.

Doreen:
You're a pig, bringing it up like that.

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.

Brenda:
Been 'ere long?

Arthur Seaton:
10 minutes, was just looking at the lovely view.

Brenda:
Better get down to earth then, adn't you?

Arthur Seaton:
How did you go on at Aunt Ada's, it go off all right?

Brenda:
No it didn't, was just one of them old wive's tales, she made me sit in a hot bath for 3 hours, had to drink a pint of gin. I'll never go through that again, it was terrible, I thought I was gonna die. And it didn't work.

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.

Brenda:
Somebody told me the other day they'd seen you coming out of the pictures with a young girl.

Arthur Seaton:
It's a bloody lie then.

Brenda:
Do you think I'm daft Arthur? I can tell you don't go on me as much as you used to .

Arthur Seaton:
That isn't true Brenda, you know I like you a lot.

Brenda:
I know you, I can see that a mile off.

Arthur Seaton:
Not my fault if you don't believe me, is it?

Brenda:
You know the trouble with you, you don't know the difference between right and rong, and I don't think you ever will.

Arthur Seaton:
Maybe I won't, but I don't want anybody to teach me either.

Brenda:
You'll learn one day.

Arthur Seaton:
We'll see, but it's now that matters isn't it, we've still got to clear this mess up.

Doreen:
Why don't you ever take me where it's lively and there's plenty of people?

Arthur Seaton:
They'd beat me right enough. Still, I had me bit of fun. It's not the first time I've been in a losing fight, won't be the last either I suppose.

Arthur Seaton:
Mam called me barmy when I told her I fell of a gasometer for a bet. But I'm not barmy, I'm a fighting pit prop that wants a pint of beer, that's me. But if any knowing bastard says that's me I'll tell them I'm a dynamite dealer waiting to blow the factory to kingdom come. Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not because they don't know a bloody thing about me! God knows what I am.

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.

Arthur Seaton:
What's it like outside?

Doreen:
It's a bit cold.

Arthur Seaton:
Not in bed it 'int, it's warm under all these blankets - come and try.

Doreen:
What do you take me for?

Arthur Seaton:
Well we're courting aren't we?

Doreen:
You might call it courting.

Arthur Seaton:
Your a nice girl Dorren, I like you a lot. I reckon you oughta stay with me for good so's that I don't get knocked down by any more horses. Trouble with me is I'm always bumping into things, it's not much of a paying game.

Doreen:
You'll have to watch where you're going then won't you.

Arthur Seaton:
Your mam takes all night to read the paper, does she read slow or is she looking a the adverts?

Doreen:
She reads every word. She loves her newspaper more than a book.

Bert:
You were born dead lucky, weren't you.

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.

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.

Doreen:
You won't tell anybody anything, will you?

Arthur Seaton:
Why should I? It pays to keep your trap shut.

Doreen:
No it don't.

Arthur Seaton:
I've just told you, haven't I told you - I got run over by a horse and cart.

Doreen:
You are a liar.

Arthur Seaton:
There's a lot more in life Bert, than me man and dad have got.

Doreen:
I asked mam if we could live at home, she said it'd be alright.

Arthur Seaton:
Till we get a new house, I wouldn't mind an old one me'self.

Doreen:
I would, I want a new one with a bathroom and everything.

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.

Arthur Seaton:
I've still got some fight left in me, not like most people.

Bert:
Not saying you ain't, but where does all this fighting get you?

Arthur Seaton:
Have you ever seen where not fighting get you?

Arthur Seaton:
What are you doing round this way then?

Jack:
I'm just going to press shop, I'm on days now.

Arthur Seaton:
I thought you might be coming to see me.

Jack:
There's no need of that is there?

Arthur Seaton:
In't there. Haven't you thought them squaddies had killed me.

Jack:
I don't know what you're talking about.

Arthur Seaton:
That's the sort of bloke you are, in't it, till you get bashed in the face then you squeel like a stuck pig.

Jack:
You caused a lot of trouble between me and Brenda, you can't deny it either, it weren't right.

Arthur Seaton:
You don't have to tell me what's right and what's not. How's Brenda anyway?