A character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

The Witch quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Connie Booth

Tied for 7th most-quoted character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975): in 1 of its 30 quotes

Scenes with The Witch

1 scene
Peasant 1

A witch! We have found a witch! Can we burn her?

Belvedere

How do you know that she is a witch?

Peasant 2

Because she looks like one!

Witch

I am not a witch! I am not a witch! They dressed me up like this, and this is not my nose it is a false one!
[Belvedere pulls off the false nose and opens his helmet] Peasant 1: Well, we did do the nose, and the hat.

Peasant 2

She has a wart.

Belvedere

Why do you think that she is a witch?

Peasant 2

Well, she turned me into a newt.

Belvedere
[Belvedere gives him a disbelieving look]

A newt?

Peasant 2
[Silence]

Well I got better.

Peasant 3

Burn her anyway.

Belvedere
[Yells of "Burn her!"]

There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. Tell me, what do you do with witches?

Burn them!

Belvedere

Now, what do burn besides witches?

Peasant 3

More witches! [receives a punch from Peasant 1; silence]

Peasant 2

Wood?

Belvedere

So, why do witches burn? [more silence]

Peasant 2

Because there made of wood?

Belvedere

So, how do you tell if she is made of wood?

Peasant 3

Build a bridge out of her!

Belvedere

Ah, but cant you also build bridges out of stone?

Peasant 3

Oh, right.

Belvedere

Tell me, does wood sink?

Peasant 1

No, it floats.

Belvedere

What also floats in water?

[lots of yelling and many wrong and random answers including very small rocks]

A duck!

Belvedere

Exactly!

Peasant 2

So if she weighs as much as a duck she is made of wood.

Belvedere

And therefore?

A witch!

Belvedere

We shall use my largest scales.

Witch
[Having been revealed to weigh the same as a duck, therefore proving her a witch, the crowd goes insane]

It's a fair cop.

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