The Jungle Book quotes

View Quote [Bagheerah is taking Mowgli back to the man-village.. And Mowgli refuses to go, they decide to sleep in a tree for the night. Kaa, he python sees two new guests in his tree, and decides Mowgli will make a tasty man-cub morsel.]
Kaa: (trying to scare Mowgli into submission) S-s-say now...
[Mowgli looks at Kaa for a moment, sticks out his tongue at Kaa, and looks away] What have we here?
[Kaa turns his head to face Mowgli's face]... it's a man-cub.
(licks lips)
[Mowgli turns the opposite dirrection again, and Kaa follows his face]
A delis-s-sious man-cub.
Mowgli : [pushing Kaa's head out of his face] Oh, go away, and leave me alone!
Bagheera : (with his eyes closed, believing Mowgli is talking to him) Oh, now, that's just what I should do but, I'm not. (yawns) Oh, now..PLEASE go to sleep, man-cub. (exhales tiringly)
Kaa: (thinking "Go to sleep, man-cub", that's it!) Yes-s-s, Man-cub. (starts to hypnotize Mowgli) Plee-ee-ease, go to slee-eep. Please go to slee-eep. (Mowgli is staring deeply into Kaa's eyes, and slowly falling under his spell. Putting him into a deathly sleep) Ss-sleep tight lit-tle man-cub. Re-e-esst in peac-sse. [wrapping his long cils around Mowgli's tiny body to prevent any resistance to his spell]
(Mowgli is dizzy from constantly staring into Kaa's eyes, and almost closes them eith exhaustion, but Mowgli still knows he's in danger, so he opens his eyes widely only to look once again, deep into Kaa's hypnotic gaze making him close his eyes again. So Kaa moves closer to enhance the effect) Slee-eep. Sleeeeeeeeep...
Mowgli: (yawning with exhaustion, trying to remember who was with him from before) Oh, oh, uhm. Bah-b-b-bug-gerah! (gulps hard because Kaa's coil reached Mowgli's neck and squeezed tightly around it, cuting off Mowgli's ability to speak. Now Mowgli is tired, unable to move or speak, and is now only thinking about how much he wants to go to sleep)
Bagheera: (still with his eyes closed) Now, look there's no use arguing anymore. (yawns) now, no more talk till morning.
Kaa: Ha-ha. He won't be here in the morning.(Happy at the fact that Mowgli is now asleep, and ready to be eaten by the hungry snake.)
Bagheera: (sleepily seeing Kaa) Oh, yes, he will, I... (Fully awake now, he does a double take as Kaa is about to eat Mowgli.) KAA! HOLD IT, KAA! (He slaps the snake with his paw, slamming his head against a tree branch above and thus freeing Mowgli from Kaa's spell.)
Kaa: (groaning) Oh, my s-s-sinus! (He glares at Bagheera) You have just made a s-s-serious-s-s mis-stake, my friend. A very s-s-stupid...
Bagheera: (apologetically) N-n-now, Kaa, I meant...
Kaa: ...mis-stake! (Bagheera closes his eyes) Look me in the eyes when I'm speaking to you. (Bagheera opens one of his eyes which Kaa instantly hypnotizes; Bagheera starts to fall under Kaa's spell)
Bagheera: N-n-now, Kaa...
Kaa: Both eyes, if you please. (Bagheera's other eye opens and he is fully hypnotized) You have jus-st s-s-sealed your doooooom. (Unbeknownst to him, however, Mowgli has freed himself from the snake's coils and shoved them off the tree. Kaa falls out of the tree)

View Quote (after he, Bagheera and Mowgli escape from King Louie and company) Whew! (laughs) Man, that's what I call a swinging party!

View Quote (after Bagheera tells Baloo he is taking Mowgli back to the man village) They'll ruin him! They'll make a man out of him!

View Quote (as he and Mowgli float down a river) Let me tell you something, little britches: if you act like that bee--uh-uh, you're working too hard. And don't spend your time looking around…for something you want that can't be found.

View Quote Bagheera: Oh, no, it's Baloo, that shiftless, stupid jungle bum.

View Quote Buzzie: Hey, Flaps, what are we gonna do today?
Flaps: I dunno. What'cha wanna do?
Ziggy: I've got it! Let's flap over to the east side of the jungle. They've always got a bit of action, a bit of a swingin' scene, all right.
Buzzie: Aw, come off it. Things are right dead all over.
Ziggy: You mean you wish they were. [all laugh]
Dizzy: [seriously] Very funny.
Buzzie: Hey, Flaps, So what we were going to do?
Flaps: I dunno. What'cha wanna do?
Buzzie: Look, Flaps, first I say, "What were going to do?" Then you say, "I don't know. What'cha wanna do?" Then I say, "What we're going to do?" Then you say, "What'cha wanna do?" Let's do something!
Flaps: Ok. What'cha wanna do? [Buzzie sighs]
Buzzie: There you go again. The same notes again!
Ziggy: I've got it! This time, I really got it!

View Quote (at night)
Mowgli: Bagheera... (yawning) I'm getting a little sleepy. Shouldn't we start back home?
Bagheera: Mowgli, this time we're not going back. I'm taking you to a man-village.
Mowgli: But why?
Bagheera: Because Shere Khan has returned to this part of the jungle, and he has sworn to kill you.
Mowgli: Kill me? But why would he want to do that?
Bagheera: He hates man. And Shere Khan is not going to allow you to grow up to become a man--just another hunter with a gun.
Mowgli: Aw, we'll just explain to him that I'd never do a thing like that.
Bagheera: Nonsense. No one explains anything to Shere Khan.
Mowgli: Well, maybe so, but I'm not afraid. And besides...
Bagheera: Now, that's enough! We'll spend the night here, things will look better in the morning.