Mary Poppins 1964

Mr. Dawes Jr: In 1773, an official of this bank unwisely loaned a large sum of money to finance a shipment of tea to the American colonies. Do you know what happened?George W. Banks: Yes, sir. Yes, I think I do. As the ship lay anchored in Boston Harbor, a party of the colonists dressed as red Indians boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking. Even for Americans.Mr. Dawes Jr: Precisely. The loan was defaulted. Panic ensued within these walls. There was a run on the bank.Mr. Dawes Sr.: From that time to this, sir, there has not been a run on this bank - UNTIL TODAY. A run, sir, caused by the disgraceful conduct of your son. Do you deny it?George W. Banks: I do not deny it, sir, and I shall gladly assume responsibility for my son.

— Mary Poppins 1964 time

Bert: [singing] Winds in the east, mist coming in. / Like somethin is brewin and bout to begin. / Cant put me finger on what lies in store, / But I fear whats to happen all happened before.

— Mary Poppins 1964 fear

Mary Poppins: You know, you *can* say it backwards, which is docious-ali-expi-istic-fragil-cali-rupus - but thats going a bit too far, dont you think?Bert: Indubitably!

— Mary Poppins 1964 war

Mary Poppins: In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and - SNAP - the jobs a game!

— Mary Poppins 1964 men

Mary Poppins: [singing] He traveled all around the world, and everywhere he went, hed use his word, and all would say, There goes a clever gent!Bert: [singing] When dukes or maharajahs pass the time o day wi me, I say me special word and then they ask me out to tea!Mary Poppins, Bert: Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough, youll always sound precocious! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

— Mary Poppins 1964 time

Mr. Dawes Sr.: Well, do you have anything to say, Banks?George Banks: Well, sir, they do say that when theres nothing to say, all you can say...[He feels Michaels tuppence in his pocket, takes it out and looks at it]Mr. Dawes Sr.: Confound it, Banks! I said do you have anything to say?George Banks: [begins giggling hysterically] Just one word, sir...Mr. Dawes Sr.: Yes?George Banks: Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious!Mr. Dawes Sr.: What?George Banks: Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious! Mary Poppins was right, its extraordinary! It *does* make you feel better! Hee hee hee hee!Mr. Dawes Sr.: What are you talking about, man? Theres no such word!George Banks: Oh yes! It is a word! A perfectly good word! Actually, do you know what theres no such thing as? It turns out, with due respect, when all is said and done, that theres no such thing as YOU!

— Mary Poppins 1964 man

[Mary Poppins measures herself with her tape measure and reads what it says]Mary Poppins: As I expected. Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way.

— Mary Poppins 1964 self

Bert: Its true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are winning, and Prudence and Gwendolyn set your heart spinning! Phoebes delightful, Maude is disarming...Penguins: Janice, Felicia, Lydia...Bert: ...charming! Cynthias dashing, Vivians sweet! Stephanies smashing, Priscillas a treat.Penguins: Veronica, Millicent, Agnes, and Jane...Bert: ...convivial company, time and again. Dorcas and Phyllis and Glynis are sorts I will agree are three jolly good sports, but cream of the crop, tip of the top - Its Mary Poppins, and there we stop!

— Mary Poppins 1964 time

Mary Poppins: [singing] So when the cat has got your tongue, theres no need for dismay! Just summon up this word, and then youve got a lot to say! But better use it carefully or it could change your life...Busker: For example...Mary Poppins: Yes?Busker: One night I said it to me girl, and now me girls me wife.[Wife gets angry and hits him with tambourine]Busker: Ow! And a lovely thing she is, too.[Wife smiles]

— Mary Poppins 1964 love

Mary Poppins: Close your mouth, please, Michael. We are not a codfish.

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

Bert: What did I tell ya? Theres the whole world at your feet. And who gets to see it but the birds, the stars, and the chimney sweeps.

— Mary Poppins 1964 world

Michael: [talking about Mary Poppins] We better keep an eye on this one. Shes tricky.

— Mary Poppins 1964

Mary Poppins: Our first game is called Well Begun is Half-Done.Michael: I dont like the sound of that.Mary Poppins: Otherwise titled Lets Tidy up the Nursery.Michael: [to Jane] I told you she was tricky.

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

Jane: Mary Poppins, we wont let you go!Mary Poppins: Go? What on earth are you talking about?Michael: Didnt you get sacked?Mary Poppins: Sacked? Certainly not. I am never sacked!Jane: Oh, Mary Poppins!Jane, Michael: Hurrah, hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray...Mary Poppins: Neither am I a Maypole. Kindly stop spinning about me.

— Mary Poppins 1964 art

Mary Poppins: [singing] Chim Chiminy, Chim Chiminy, Chim Chim Chiree! When youre with a sweep, youre in glad company.Bert: Never was there a more happier crew, than them what sings Chim Chim Chiree Chim Chiroo! Chim Chim Chiminy Chim Chim Chiree Chim Chiroo...

— Mary Poppins 1964 sin

Bert: All right, Ill do it myself!Mary Poppins: Do what?Bert: Bit o magic!Michael: A bit of magic?Bert: Its easy! Lets see... You think.[he, Jane, and Michael do so]Bert: You wink.[they do so]Bert: You do a double blink.[they do so]Bert: You close your eyes... and jump![They jump onto the drawing, nothing happens]Jane: Is something sposed to happen?Mary Poppins: Bert, what utter nonsense![gives an exasperated sigh]Mary Poppins: Why do you *always* complicate things that are really quite simple? Give me your hand please, Michael. Dont slouch. One... two...[They jump into the chalk picture]

— Mary Poppins 1964 magic

Jane: Good morning, father!George W. Banks: [grumbles] Morning.Jane: Mary Poppins taught us the most wonderful word!Michael: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!George W. Banks: What on Earth are you talking about, supercal... super... or whatever the infernal thing is?Jane: Its something to say when you dont know what to say.George W. Banks: Yes, well, I always know what to say.

— Mary Poppins 1964 art

Mary Poppins: Thats a piecrust promise. Easily made, easily broken.

— Mary Poppins 1964 broken

Bert: Youre a man of high position, esteemed by your peers.[sings]Bert: And when your little tykes are crying, you havent time to dry their tears... And see their thankful little faces smiling up at you... Cause their dad, he always knows just what to do...George Banks: Well, look - I...Bert: Say no more, Govner.[sings]Bert: Youve got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone... Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve... And all too soon theyve up and grown, and then theyve flown... And its too late for you to give - just that spoonful of sugar to elp the medicine go down - medicine go dow-wown, medicine go down.[speaks]Bert: Well, goodbye, Govner. Sorry to trouble you.[Bert exits, whistling A Spoonful of Sugar]

— Mary Poppins 1964 time

Mr. Banks: Just a moment, Mary Poppins. What is the meaning of this outrage?Mary Poppins: I beg your pardon?Mr. Banks: Will you be good enough to explain all this?Mary Poppins: First of all, I would like to make one thing quite clear.Mr. Banks: Yes?Mary Poppins: I never explain anything.[exits]

— Mary Poppins 1964 men

George Banks: Shut the window. That bird is giving me a headache.Ellen: Yes sir.[to the bird]Ellen: Quiet! Youre giving the master a headache!

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

George Banks: I suggest you have this piano repaired. When I sit down to an instrument, I like to have it in tune.Mrs. Banks: But, George, you dont play.George Banks: Madam, that is entirely beside the point!

— Mary Poppins 1964 men

George Banks: [singing] These silly words, like...[speaks and stammers]George Banks: Superca... superca... superca...Mary Poppins: Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious.George Banks: Yes, well done! You said it!

— Mary Poppins 1964 words

Mary Poppins: [watching Bert, Albert, Jane, and Michael laugh together on the ceiling] Why, its the most disgraceful sight Ive ever seen, or my name isnt Mary Poppins.Bert: Speakin o names, I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.Uncle Albert: Whats the name of his other leg?[he, Bert, Jane, and Michael laugh]

— Mary Poppins 1964 grace

Mrs. Banks: [singing] Were clearly soldiers in petticoats, and dauntless crusaders for womens a-votes! Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group theyre rather stupid.

— Mary Poppins 1964 women

[On the failure of their previous nanny]Mrs. Banks: Im sorry, dear, but when I chose Katie Nana, I thought she would be firm with the children. She looked so solemn and cross.George Banks: My dear, never confuse efficiency with a liver complaint.

— Mary Poppins 1964 children

Mary Poppins: We cant have them gallivanting up there like kangaroos, can we?

— Mary Poppins 1964

Mrs. Banks: As a matter of fact, since you hired Mary Poppins, the most extraordinary things seem to have come over the household.Mr. Banks: Is that so?Mrs. Banks: Take Ellen, for instance. She hasnt broken a dish all morning.Mr. Banks: Really? Well, that is extraordinary.

— Mary Poppins 1964 sin

Mrs. Banks: Oh, George, you didnt jump into the river. How sensible of you![Mr. Banks kisses her]Constable Jones: [into phone] Its all right, sir, hes been found! No, *alive*! Or so I presume, hes a-kissin the Mrs. Banks.Mrs. Banks: Ive been so worried, what happened at the ba...[Mr. Banks picks her up and whirls her around]Mr. Banks: Ive been sacked! Discharged! Flung into the street![singing]Mr. Banks: A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down! Tra-la-laaa-lalalalala!Ellen: Gone off his crumpet, thats what hes done. Dotty as you please.

— Mary Poppins 1964 sin

[first lines]Bert: All right, ladies an gents! Comical poem! Suitable for the occasion, extemporized and thought up before your very eyes! All right, ere we go![sings]Bert: Room ere for everyone. Gather around.[speaks]Bert: The constable - responstable! Now ow does that sound?[no response]Bert: Hm.[dashes over to Miss Lark, sings]Bert: Ello, Miss Lark, Ive got one for you.[speaks]Bert: Miss Lark... likes to walk... in the park... with Andrew![Andrew barks, then Bert tips his hat to him]Bert: Hello, Andrew.[turns to Mrs. Corry, sings]Bert: Ah, Mrs. Corry, a story for you.[speaks]Bert: Your daughters were shorter than you - but they grew!

— Mary Poppins 1964 poem

Mr. Banks: [singing] With tuppence for paper and strings, you can have your own set of wings! With your feet on the ground youre a bird in flight, with your fist holding tight to the string of your kite! Oh, oh, oh, lets go fly a kite, up to the highest height! Lets go fly a kite, and send it soaring! Up through the atmosphere, up where the air is clear! Oh, lets go... fly a kite!

— Mary Poppins 1964 light

Bert: It reminds me of me brother. He got a nice cushy job at a watch factory.Uncle Albert: At a watch factory? What does he do?Bert: He stands about all day... and makes faces!Uncle Albert: [laughing hysterically] He makes faces in a watch factory!

— Mary Poppins 1964 mind

Bert: Uncle Albert, I got a jolly joke I saved for just such an occasion. Would you like to hear it?Uncle Albert: [sobbing] Id be so grateful.Bert: Well its about me granddad, see, and one night he has a nightmare. He was so scared, he chewed his pillow to bits. Bits. In the morning, I says, How you feel, Granddad? He says, Oh, not bad. A little down in the mouth.[Bert laughs, Uncle Albert sobs harder]Bert: I always say theres nothing like a good joke.Uncle Albert: [sobbing] No, and that was nothing like a good joke.

— Mary Poppins 1964 good

Parrot Umbrella: Awk, thats gratitude for you. Didnt even say goodbye?Mary Poppins: No, they didnt.Parrot Umbrella: Look at them! You know, they think more of their father than they do of you!Mary Poppins: Thats as it should be.Parrot Umbrella: Well, dont you care?Mary Poppins: Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.Parrot Umbrella: Is that so? Well, Ill tell you one thing, Mary Poppins: you dont fool me a bit!Mary Poppins: Oh, really?Parrot Umbrella: Yes, really. I know exactly how you feel about these children, and if you think Im going to keep my mouth shut any longer, Ill...[she clamps his mouth shut]Mary Poppins: That will be quite enough of that, thank you.

— Mary Poppins 1964 time

Constable Jones: [on phone] Thats what I said, sir. Go fly a kite![pause]Constable Jones: Well, no, sir, no. I didnt mean you *personally.*

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

Mr. Dawes Jr: Ah, there you are, Banks. I want to congratulate you. Capital bit of humor, wooden leg named Smith![pauses looks a bit confused]Mr. Dawes Jr: Or, Jones, whatever it was. Father died laughing!George Banks: Oh, Im so sorry, sir!Mr. Dawes Jr: Oh no, nonsense, nothing to be sorry about! Never seen him happier in his life. He left an opening for a new partner.[puts a new carnation into Banks buttonhole]Mr. Dawes Jr: Congratulations.George Banks: Oh thank you, sir, thank you very much indeed![kisses Mrs. Banks]

— Mary Poppins 1964 humor

[Uncle Albert had been asked if there is a way to get down from being up in the air]Uncle Albert: There is a way. And frankly, I dont like to think of it, because you have to think of something sad.Mary Poppins: Then do get on with it, please.Uncle Albert: Let me see... I have the very thing: Yesterday, when the lady next door answered the door, there was a man there, and the man said to the lady, Im terribly sorry, I just ran over your cat.[Jane and Michael descend from being up in the air]Jane: Oh, that is sad.Michael: The poor cat.Uncle Albert: And the man said, Id like to replace your cat. And the lady said, Thats all right with me, but how are you with catching mice?[then they all burst out laughing and Jane and Michael re-ascend back to the tea table in the air]

— Mary Poppins 1964 sad

Mary Poppins: Never judge things by their appearance... even carpetbags. Im sure I never do.

— Mary Poppins 1964

Mary Poppins: People who get their feet wet must learn to take their medicine.

— Mary Poppins 1964 people

George Banks: [singing] A British bank is run with precision. A British home requires nothing less! Tradition, discipline, and rules must be the tools! Without them: disorder, catastrophe! Anarchy! In short, you have a ghastly mess!

— Mary Poppins 1964 sin

Mary Poppins: I beg your pardon, are you ill?George Banks: I hope not.

— Mary Poppins 1964 hope

Uncle Albert: Speaking of weather, the other day when it was so cold, a friend of mine went to buy some long underwear. The shopkeeper said to him, How long do you want it? And my friend said, Well, from about September to March.

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

Michael: I want it to feed the birds.Mr. Dawes Sr.: Fiddlesticks, boy! Feed the birds and what have you got? Fat birds! But...[sings]Mr. Dawes Sr.: If you invest your tuppence wisely in the bank, safe and sound, soon that tuppence, safely invested in the bank, will compound! And youll achieve that sense of conquest, as your affluence expands! In the hands of the directors, who invest as propriety demands!

— Mary Poppins 1964 man

Mary Poppins: [singing] Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down, the medicine go down. Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, in the most delightful way.

— Mary Poppins 1964 light

Bert: Bertll take care of you, just like I was your own father. Now whos after you?Jane: Father is.

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

[repeated line]Mary Poppins: Spit-spot!

— Mary Poppins 1964

Mary Poppins: [singing] Stay awake, dont rest your head. Dont lie down upon your bed. While the moon drifts in the skies... Stay awake, dont close your eyes. Though the world is fast asleep, though your pillows soft and deep, youre not sleepy as you seem; stay awake, dont nod and dream... Stay awake... dont nod... and... dream.

— Mary Poppins 1964 world

[last lines]Bert: Goodbye, Mary Poppins, dont stay away too long.

— Mary Poppins 1964 good

Mrs. Banks: But youre always saying that you wanted a cheerful and pleasant household.Mr. Banks: Winifred, I should like to make a slight differentiation between the word cheerful and just plain giddy irresponsibility.

— Mary Poppins 1964 light

Mary Poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

— Mary Poppins 1964

George Banks: [Going to see the bank] Remember that the bank is a quiet and decorous place, and we must be on our best behavior.Michael: But I thought it was your bank.George Banks: Yes, well, Im one of the junior officers, so in a sense it is. Sort of.

— Mary Poppins 1964 thought

Mary Poppins: [as Jane and Michael run down the path in the chalk drawing] Dont fall and smudge the drawing!

— Mary Poppins 1964 path

Lady in the Bank: Theres something wrong, the bank wont give someone their money.Depositor: Well, Im going to get mine. Come along, young man, every penny!

— Mary Poppins 1964 money

Bert: Up where the smoke is all billowed and curled / Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world / When theres hardly no day, nor hardly no night / Theres things half in shadow and halfway in light / On the rooftops of London / Coo, what a sight!

— Mary Poppins 1964 men

George Banks: Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts.

— Mary Poppins 1964 wit

George Banks: [singing] A man has dreams of walking with giants. To carve his niche in the edifice of time. Before the mortar of his seal has a chance to congeal... The cup is dashed from his lips! The flame is snuffed a-borning... Hes brought to wrack and ruin in his prime.

— Mary Poppins 1964 dreams

[Andrew the dog comes up to Mary Poppins and starts barking]Mary Poppins: Not so fast please, I cant understand a word youre saying.[Andrew barks slower]Mary Poppins: Again? Oh, the poor man![Andrew barks again and sneezes]Mary Poppins: Bless you.[Andrew barks again]Mary Poppins: Why yes, of course, theres not a moment to lose. Ill go straightaway! And thank you very much.[Andrew barks]Jane: What did he say?Mary Poppins: He said Youre welcome.Jane: What else did he say?Michael: I dont think he said anything!Mary Poppins: You know best, as usual.

— Mary Poppins 1964 art

Mary Poppins: Enough is as good as a feast.

— Mary Poppins 1964 good

Admiral Boom: Glorious day, Mr. Binnacle! Glorious! No one sleeps this morning. Put in a double charge of powder.Mr. Binnacle: A double charge? Aye aye sir!Admiral Boom: Shake things up a bit, what?

— Mary Poppins 1964 sleep

Admiral Boom: [observing the queue of prospective nannies] Ghastly looking crew, I must say!

— Mary Poppins 1964

Mary Poppins: Silence please, its time to go to sleep.Jane: Oh we couldnt possibly go to sleep, so many lovely and excited things happened today!Mary Poppins: Did they?Jane: Yes! When we jumped into Berts chalk picture!Michael: And we rode the merry-go-round, and the horses jumped off...Jane: And we all went riding down the country side![they jump up and down shouting riding cries; Mary Poppins acts indifferent]Mary Poppins: Really?Jane: Mary Poppins, dont you remember? You won the horse race!Mary Poppins: A respectable person like me, in a horse race? How dare you suggest such a thing!Michael: But I saw you do it!Mary Poppins: Now not another word or I shall have to summon a policeman! Is that clear?

— Mary Poppins 1964 love

Admiral Boom: [seeing the chimney sweeps dancing on the rooftops] Were being attacked by hottentots!

— Mary Poppins 1964 dancing

Bert: Bertll take care of you; like I was your own father. Now, whos after you?Jane: Father is.Bert: What?

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

Mary Poppins: [measuring Michael with her magic tape measure] Just as I thought - Extremely stubborn and suspicious.[Jane laughs]Michael: I am not!Mary Poppins: See for yourself.Michael: [reading] Extremely stubborn and sups... Mary Poppins: Suspicious. Now you, Jane.[measures Jane]Mary Poppins: Hmm. Rather inclined to giggle, doesnt put things away.[Michael laughs]

— Mary Poppins 1964 reading

Mr. Dawes Sr.: While stand the banks of England, England stands - whoa, whoa...![Mr. Dawes lurches forward, the others steady him]Mr. Dawes Sr.: When fall the banks of England... ENGLAND FALLS![Mr. Dawes falls backward; the rest of the Board of Directors have to catch him]

— Mary Poppins 1964 war

Old Crone: [seeing Jane and Michael running in the alley] Come with me, mdears! Grannyll ide you!

— Mary Poppins 1964 you

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