Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory quotes

76 total quotes

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Oompa Loompas
Sam Beauregarde
Veruca Salt
Willy Wonka

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

View Quote 'Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way! [From "Homeward Bound" by William Allington.]

View Quote Open your mouth a little wider when you speak. [Quoting the Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass.]

View Quote A small step for mankind, but a giant leap for us. [Misinterpretation of Neil Armstrong's famous quote upon being the first man to walk on the moon.]

View Quote Let me out or I'll scream!

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 [about Violet]
Charlie Bucket: Grandpa, why doesn't she listen to Mr. Wonka?
Grandpa Joe: Because, Charlie, she's a nitwit!

View Quote Mrs. Teavee: I'm sending you the cleaning bill, Mr. Wonka!

View Quote Oompa loompa doopadee doo/I've got a perfect puzzle for you / Oompa loompa doopadee dee / If you are wise you'll listen to me/What do you get when you guzzle down sweets? / Eating as much as an elephant eats?/What are you at getting terribly fat? / What do you think will come of that? / I don't like the look of it / Oompa loompa doopade dah / If you're not greedy you will go far / You will live in happiness too / Like the oompa loompa doopade do / Doopade do.

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

View Quote Violet Beauregarde: What is this, a freak out?

View Quote [as the Wonkamobile sprays foam everywhere] "Martha! Martha! Du entschwandest, Und mein GlÃ¼ck nahmst du mit dir; Gib mir wieder, was du fandest, Oder teile es mit mir." [From Friedrich von Flotow's opera Martha. Translation: "Martha! Martha! You have vanished, and you take my joy with you; Show me what you have found, or split it with me."]

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

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 Where is fancy bred? In the heart or in the head? [From The Merchant of Venice.]