The Sound of Music quotes

66 total quotes

Captain von Trapp
Maria
Multiple Characters
Reverend Mother

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 [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 [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 Activity suggests a life filled with purpose.

View Quote Every morning, you will drill the children in their studies. I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon, they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all time with the utmost orderliness and decorum. I am placing you in command.

View Quote FrÃ¤ulein, is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?

View Quote I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel

View Quote In the future, you'll kindly remember there are certain rooms in this house which are not to be disturbed.

View Quote It seems to be the will of God that you leave us...only for a while, Maria...Perhaps if you go out into the world for a time, knowing what we expect of you, you will have a chance to find out if you can expect it of yourself.

View Quote It's the dress. You'll have to put on another one before you meet the children.

View Quote Knowing how nervous I must have been - a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted, it was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm... and happy and... pleasant.

View Quote 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.

View Quote Reverend Mother always says when the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.

View Quote Sorry Sir, I don't know your signal.

View Quote The first rule in this house is discipline.