The Nightmare Before Christmas quotes

View Quote Terrible news, folks! The worst tragedy of our times! The King of Halloween has been blown to smithereens! Skeleton Jack is now a pile of dust!

View Quote Sally: I had the most terrible vision.
Jack: That's splendid!
Sally: No - it was about your Christmas. There was smoke, and fire...
Jack: That's not MY Christmas! MY Christmas is filled with laughter, and joy... and this: my Sandy Claws outfit. I want you to make it.
Sally: Jack, please listen to me. It's going to be a disaster!
Jack: How could it be? Just follow the pattern! This part's red, the trim is white...
Sally: It's a mistake, Jack!
Jack: Now, don't be modest. Who else is clever enough to make my Sandy Claws outfit?

View Quote [Singing] Just because I cannot see it doesn't mean I can't believe it!

View Quote Jack: [Singing] We take an oversized sock, and hang it like this on a wall.
Mr. Hyde: [eagerly] [Singing] Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?
Smaller Mr. Hyde: [Singing] Let me see, let me look!
Smallest Mr. Hyde: [Singing] Is it rotted and covered with gook?!

View Quote Kid: Santa?
Jack: Merry Christmas! And what is your name?
Kid: I... um...
Jack: That's all right. I have a present for you anyway. There you go, sonny!
[Jack slips out up the chimney, cackling as he goes]
Mother: And what did Santa bring you, Honey?
[The kid shows his parents his present—a shrunken head.]
Mother, Father Aaaaaahhhhhh!

View Quote Jack! But they said you were dead. You must be... DOUBLE DEAD!

View Quote [as he's about to drop Sally and Santa in his snake and spider stew] Bye bye, doll face, and sand-man.

View Quote Frog's Breath? Nothing's more suspicious than Frog's Breath!!

View Quote Mayor: [cheerfully] How horrible our Christmas will be!
Jack: No, how JOLLY!
Mayor: Ohhh... [depressed] How jolly our Christmas will be...

View Quote Santa: Haven't you heard of peace on Earth, and goodwill toward men?
Lock, Shock, Barrel: NO!

View Quote Jack, please, I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself!

View Quote Shock: [pushing Santa down the pipe] I think he might be too big!
Lock: No he's not. If he can fit down a chimney, he can fit down here.

View Quote You've poisoned me for the last time, you wretched girl!

View Quote [Singing] What's this? / What's this? / There's color everywhere / What's this? / There's white things in the air / What's this? / I can't believe my eyes, I must be dreaming / Wake up, Jack! This isn't fair! / What's this?

View Quote [To his new creation] You will be a decided improvement over that treacherous Sally. We'll have conversations worth having.