Mary Poppins quotes

52 total quotes

Bert
Mary Poppins
Mr. George Banks
Mrs. Banks
Multiple Characters

View Quote Mary Poppins: Chim Chiminy, Chim Chiminy, Chim Chim Cher-ee/When you're with a 'sweep, you're in glad company.
Bert: Never was there a more happier crew/Than them what sings Chim Chim Chiree Chim Chiroo! Chim Chim Chiminy Chim Chim Chiree Chim Chiroo...

View Quote Horseman: View hallo!
Horse: Oh, yes, definitely. A view hallo.
Fox: View hallo? Faith and begora, it's them redcoats again!

View Quote [singing] Our daughters' daughters will adore us and they'll sing in grateful chorus, "Well done, sister suffragettes."

View Quote Mary Poppins: So if the cat has got your tongue, there's no need for dismay / Just summon up this word and then you've got a lot to say / But better use it carefully or it could change your life...
Busker: For example...
Mary Poppins: Yes?
Busker: One night I said it to me girl, and now me girl's me wife.
[Wife hits him with tambourine]
Busker: Ow! And a lovely thing she is, too.

View Quote [singing] Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

View Quote Mr. Banks: Just a moment, Mary Poppins. What is the meaning of this outrage?
Mary Poppins: I beg your pardon?
Mr. Banks: Will you be good enough to explain all this?
Mary Poppins: First of all I would like to make one thing quite clear.
Mr. Banks: Yes?
Mary Poppins: I never explain anything.

View Quote George Banks: [Going to see the bank] We must be on our best behavior.
Michael: But I thought it was your bank.
George Banks: Well I'm one of the younger officers so in a sense it is. Sort of.

View Quote Why do you always complicate things that are really quite simple?

View Quote Mrs. Banks: As a matter of fact, since you hired Mary Poppins, the most extraordinary things seem to have come over the household.
Mr. Banks: Is that so.
Mrs. Banks: Take Ellen for instance. She hasn't broken a dish all morning.
Mr. Banks: Really. Well, that is extraordinary.

View Quote Close your mouth please, Michael, we are not a codfish.

View Quote [George Banks has just been discharged]
Mr. Dawes Sr.: Well, Banks - have you anything to say for yourself?
George Banks: Well, sir, they say that when you have nothing to say, all you can say is...
(He feels something in his pocket, takes it out, and looks at it: Michael's tuppence. He starts to laugh)
Mr. Dawes Sr.: Confound it, Banks! I said do you have anything to say!
George Banks: Only one thing, sir...
Mr. Dawes Sr.: Eh?
George Banks: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

View Quote Oh, George, you didn't jump into the river. How sensible of you!

View Quote [about his chalk drawings] Not Royal Academy, I suppose. Still better than a finger in the eye, ain't they?

View Quote In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and [snap] the job's a game.

View Quote Jane: Good morning, father. Mary Poppins taught us the most wonderful word.
Michael: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
George Banks: What on Earth are you talking about? Superca - Super - or whatever the infernal thing is.
Jane: It's something to say when you don't know what to say.
George Banks: Yes, well, I always know what to say.