Mythic Willy Wonka

Just for the stimulation of your mythic nerve...quotes from the great movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. (All quotes are by Willy Wonka, unless otherwise noted)

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.

Sam Beauregarde: What is this, Wonka, some sort of funhouse?
Willy Wonka: Why? Having fun?

*We* are the music makers... and *we* are the dreamers of dreams.

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

No other factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall. But it's the only way if you want it just... right.

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere, and not a drop to drink... yet.

If the good Lord had intended us to walk he wouldn't have invented roller-skates.

So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.

Willy Wonka: We're there.
Mrs. Teevee: Where?
Willy Wonka: Here.

Mrs. Gloop: My son! He'll be made into marshmallows in five seconds.
Willy Wonka: Impossible, my dear lady. That's absurd. Unthinkable.
Mrs. Gloop: Why?
Willy Wonka: Because that pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room. It goes to the fudge room.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Charlie Bucket: Mr. Wonka, they won't really be burned in the furnace, will they?
Willy Wonka: Well, I think that furnace is only lit every other day, so they have a good sporting chance, haven't they?

Sam Beauregarde: Come on, Violet. We're getting out of here.
Willy Wonka: Oh, you can't get out backwards. You've got to go forwards to go back, better press on.

I don't understand this. The children are dissappearing like rabbits. Well, at least we still have each other. Let's move along.

Who's going to watch over my factory and take care of the Oompa Loompas for me after I pass on? Not a grown-up. A grown-up would want to do things his own way. That's why I wanted a child. A kind and caring small boy.

Grandpa Joe: But the roof is made of glass. It'll shatter into a thousand pieces. We'll be cut to ribbons.
Willy Wonka: Probably.

No, no, don't speak. For some moments in life there are no words.

Mrs. Teevee: I assume there's an accident indemnity clause.
Willy Wonka: Never between friends.

'Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way.

Willy Wonka: How do you like my factory, Charlie?
Charlie Bucket: It's the most amazing place in the whole world!
Willy Wonka: I'm very glad to hear that. Because I'm giving it to you.