The Sound of Music quotes

View Quote Rolfe: [rebuffing Liesl] We make it our business to know everything about everyone. I'm now occupied with more important matters. And your father better be too if he knows what's good for him.

View Quote Kurt: Only grown-up men are scared of women.

View Quote Captain: You, Fraulein, will listen carefully. Learn their signals so that you can call them when you want them. Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear. [Blows whistle]
Maria: Oh, no, sir, I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children, and definitely not for me. It would be... too humiliating.
Captain: Fraulein, were you this much trouble at the Abbey?
Maria: Oh, much more, sir.
Captain: Hmm.
[Starts to leave the room when Maria blows the whistle. He looks back at her]
Maria: Excuse me, sir, I don't know your signal.

View Quote Kurt: I haven't had so much fun since the day we put glue on Fräulein Josephine's toothbrush.

View Quote [to the von Trapps as they try to escape] I lift up mine eyes into the hills, from whence cometh my help...God be with you.

View Quote Gretl: I've got a sore finger.

View Quote [to Rolfe] You're only a boy. You don't really belong to them...Come away with us before it's too late...You'll never be one of them.

View Quote Sister Margaretta: [to the Reverend Mother, about Maria] She doesn't say a word, Reverend Mother, except in prayer...It's strange. She seems happy to be back here, and yet she's unhappy too.

View Quote Elsa: [after seeing the Captain dance with Maria] Oh, that was beautifully done. What a lovely couple you make.

View Quote Liesl: What happens when a person stops loving you?
Maria: You cry a little and then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does.

View Quote Liesl: [after Rolfe kisses her] Wheeeeeee!

View Quote [to Maria] There isn't going to be any Baroness...well, we've, uhm, called off our engagement, you see...You can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else, can you?

View Quote Zeller: [about the Captain] When he does return, he will be expected to fill his proper position in the new order.

View Quote Max: Have you made up Georg's mind yet? Do I hear wedding bells?
Elsa: Pealing madly.
Max: Marvelous.
Elsa: But not necessarily for me.
Max: What kind of talk's that?
Elsa: That is none of your business talk, Max. I am terribly fond of Georg and I will not have you toying with us.
Max: But I am a child. I like toys, so tell me everything. Oh come on, tell Max every teensy, weensy, intimate disgusting detail.
Elsa: Well, let's just say I have a feeling I may be here on approval.
Max: Well, I approve of that. How can you miss?
Elsa: Far too easily.
Max: If I know you, darling, and I do, you will find a way.
Elsa: Oh, he's no ordinary man.
Max: No, he's rich!
Elsa: When his wife died, she left him with a terrible heartache.
Max: And when your husband died, he left you with a terrible fortune.
Elsa: Oh, Max, you really are a beast.
Max: You and Georg are like family to me. That's why I want to see you two get married. We must keep all that lovely money in the family.

View Quote [after receiving a telegram from the Nazis] I've been requested to accept immediately and report to their naval base at Bremerhaven tomorrow...To refuse them would be fatal for all of us. And joining them would be unthinkable.