The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotes

View Quote Humma Kavula is a person? I thought he was swearing!

View Quote Vogons: [repeated line] Resistance is useless!

View Quote [as they are gazing at the wonder of Magrathea] Incredible... it's even worse than I thought it would be.

View Quote So much for the laws of physics....

View Quote Vogons are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry to you.

View Quote [about Zaphod] Go with the hunch of a man whose brain is fueled by LEMONS?!!

View Quote The Point-of-View gun conveniently does precisely what its name suggests. That is, if you point it at someone and pull the trigger, they instantly see things from your point of view. It was designed by Deep Thought, but commissioned by a consortium of intergalactic angry housewives, who after countless arguments with their husbands were sick to the teeth of ending those arguments with the phrase "You just don't get it, do you?"

View Quote What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present cir****stances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer.

View Quote The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief", are small blue creatures with more than fifty arms each. They are unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

View Quote This will all end in tears, I just know it.

View Quote Not that anyone cares what I say, but the Restaurant is on the other end of the universe.

View Quote Unbelievable