Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory quotes

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View Quote We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. [A quote from Arthur O'Shaughnessy's "Ode."]

View Quote The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last. [A quote from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."]

View Quote Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker. [A poem by Ogden Nash.]

View Quote Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple. [A reference to Thomas Alva Edison's famous aphorism.]

View Quote [singing] A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. [A well-known proverb before Roald Dahl used it; Horace writes, "Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco."]

View Quote You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about. [A quote from "The Microbe" by Hilaire Belloc.]

View Quote [As he picks up the Everlasting Gobstopper relinquished by Charlie on his desk] "So shines a good deed in a weary world." [Paraphrased from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1. The word "naughty" was changed to "weary" for the movie.]

View Quote Adieu! Adieu! Parting is such sweet sorrow. [From William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2. Originally "Good night! Good night! Parting etc."]

View Quote [with apathy] Stop. Don't. Come back.

View Quote And so shines a good deed in a weary world. [When Charlie puts the Everlasting Gobbstopper on Wonka's desk.] -

View Quote '[From William Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice, Act 5, Scene I - Portia - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

View Quote [singing] I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket. It's my bar of chocolate. Give it to me now.

View Quote [singing] I want a party with roomfuls of laughter, / Ten thousand tons of ice cream, / And if I don't get the things I am after, / I'm going to SCREAM!

View Quote Let me out or I'll scream!

View Quote [singing] Don't care how, I want it now! Don't care how, I want it [plummets down the "bad egg" chute] noooooooooowwwwwwwww.....