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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Quotes

“Oh. Bleeding hearts of the world UNITE.”
— The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas Movies, Bleeding Hearts
“And they'll feast, feast, feast, feast. They'll eat their Who-Pudding and rare Who-Roast Beast. But that's something I just cannot stand in the least. Oh, no. I'M SPEAKING IN RHYME!”
— The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas Movies, Speaking in Rhyme, Who-Ville, eating, Feat
“That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always been about. Gifts, gifts... gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts! You wanna know what happens to your gifts? They all come to me. In your garbage. You see what I'm saying? In your garbage. I could hang myself with all the bad Christmas neckties I found at the dump. And the avarice. The avarice never ends! 'I want golf clubs. I want diamonds. I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored and sell it to make glue.' Look, I don't wanna make waves, but this whole Christmas season is...”
— The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas Movies, gifts, CHristmas Gifts, Avarice
“All right, fine! I'm not talking to you anymore! In fact, I'm going to whisper! So that by the time my voice reverberates off the walls, and gets back to me, I won't be able to hear it.”
— The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas Movies, talking, whispering, reverberaton
“I tell you Max, I don't know why I ever leave this place. I've got all the company I need right here.”
— The Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas Movies, company, homebody, Solipsism
“[after Max scared off some teen Whos] Well done, Max! Serves them right, those yuletide-loving...sickly-sweet, nog-sucking cheer mongers! I really don't like 'em. Mm-mm. No, I don't. [eats an onion] MAX! [Max whimpers] Get my cloak. [Max runs back inside] I've been much too tolerant of these Who-venile delinquents, and their innocent, victim-less pranks. [rubs his pits with the onion] So, they wanna get to know me, do they? [throws away the onion] They want to spend a little quality time with the Grinch. [turns to the camera] I guess I could use a little...social interaction.”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, body odor, Pranks
“Three thousand feet up.
Up the side of Mt. Crumpit.
He rode with his load to the tip-top to dump it.”
— Narrator (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas, Anti-Christmas, Dump
“A trip or a slip, you'd slide all the way down, but this girl had a mission.”
— Narrator (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas, Anti-Christmas, mission, trip, Slip
“The whipperwinds whipped high above the Who town.”
— Narrator (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas, Anti-Christmas, Whipperwinds, Whoville
“Way up in the mountains, in the high range of Pontoos, lay the small town of Whoville: The Home of the Whos.”
— Narrator (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Christmas, Whoville
“Grinch: That's a noise...

Narrator: Grinned the Grinch...

Grinch: That I simply must hear!

Narrator: So he paused—and the Grinch put a hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the snow. It started in low...then it started to grow.”
— Narrator / The Grinch (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, reindeer, sound
“Grinch: All I need is a reindeer!

Narrator: The Grinch looked around, but since reindeer are scarce, there was none to be found. Did that stop the Grinch? Ha! The Grinch simply said...

Grinch: If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead.

Narrator: So he took his dog Max, and he took some black thread, and he tied a big horn on the top of his head.”
— Narrator / The Grinch (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, reindeer, Makeshift
“Grinch: Pooh-pooh to the Whos!

Narrator: ...he was grinchily humming.

Grinch: They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming! They're just waking up, I know just what they'll do. Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, 'Boo Hoo.'”
— Narrator / The Grinch (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas
“Grinch: Pooh-pooh to the Whos!

Narrator: He was grinchily humming.

Grinch: They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming.
They're just waking up, and I know just what they'll do.
Their mouths will hang open a minute or 2, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, ‘Boo Hoo!’
That's a noise…

Narrator: The Grinch said.

Grinch: …That I simply must hear!

Narrator: So he paused… and the Grinch put a hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low… then it started to grow.

Whos: [singing] Fah who foraze.
Dah who doraze.
Welcome, Christmas, come this way.
Fah who foraze.
Dah who doraze.
Welcome, Christmas, come this way.
Welcome, welcome.
Fah who rahmus.
Welcome, welcome.
Dah who dahmus.
Christmas Day is in our grasp, so long as…

Narrator: But this...This sound wasn't sad. Why… this sound sounded glad! [Whos still singing] Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small...was singing...without any presents at all! He hadn't stopped Christmas from coming! It came! Somehow or other… it came just the same! And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling.

Grinch: How could it be so? [grabs Max] It came without ribbons…
It came without tags…
It came without packages, boxes or bags.”
— Narrator / The Grinch (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Whos, Triumphk of Good
“The Grinch: I tell you Max, I don't know why I ever leave this place. I've got all the company I need right here. [indicates himself…shouts] Hello?

Echo: Hello.

The Grinch: How are you?

Echo: How are you?

The Grinch: I asked you first.

Echo: I asked you first.

The Grinch: Oh right, that's REALLY mature, saying exactly what I say.

Echo: ...Saying exactly what I say.

The Grinch: I'm an idiot!

Echo: You're an idiot!

The Grinch: [whispering] All right, fine! I'm not talking to you anymore! In fact, I'm going to whisper! So that by the time my voice reverberates off the walls, and gets back to me, I won't be able to hear it. [pause]

Echo: You're an idiot!”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Echo Game, Real Mature, Idiot
“ [screams] Nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there...on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn't allow it! [opens his schedule] '4:00; Wallow in self-pity, 4:30; Stare into the abyss, 5:00; Solve world hunger.' Tell no one. '5:30; (Jazz and exercise, or a.k.a.) Jazzercise. 6:30; Dinner with me.' I can't cancel that again. '7:00; Wrestle with myself loathing…' I'm booked! Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness… but what would I wear?”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Jazzercize, schedule
“ [catapults the red bag at the picture of Augustus] OOOHHH!! Sweet. [singing] Be it ever so heinous, there's no place like home…”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Heinous, No Place Like Home
“[After the Grinch starts up his sleigh outside his cave] THIS IS NUTS! [Max barks] ON, CRASHER! ON, THRASHER! ON, VOMIT AND BLITZ–! [on the sleigh he made; freaking out] WE'RE GONNA DIE, WE'RE GONNA DIE!! I'M GONNA THROW UP, AND THEN I'M GONNA DIE!!! MOMMY, TELL IT TO STOP!! [sobs, then calms down] Ha! Almost lost my cool there.”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Freaking Out
“Narrator: Whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes, he stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Whos. Staring down from his cave with a sour, grinchy frown, at the warm, lighted windows below in their town. For he knew every Who down in Whoville beneath, was busy now, hanging a holly Who-wreath.

Grinch: And they're hanging their stockings,

Narrator: He snarled with a sneer...

Grinch: Tomorrow is Christmas, it's practically here!

Narrator: Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming:

Grinch: I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming!”
— Narrator / The Grinch (voice), How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Scrooge, Rhyme
“You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch / You really are a heel / You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel / Mr Gri-inch! / You're a bad banana with a...greasy black peel.”
— Singer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Grinch Song, Mr. Grinch, Eel, Banana Peel
“ You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch / You're the king of sinful sots / Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots / Mr. Gri-inch! / You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!”
— Singer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Grinch Song, Mr. Grinch, Vile
“You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch / You have termites in your smile / You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile / Mr. Gri-inch / Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the uh...seasick crocodile.”
— Singer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Grinch Song, Mr. Grinch, Vile, Crocodile
“You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch / With a nauseous super-naus / You're a crooked jerky jockey, and you drive a crooked hoss, / Mr. Gri-inch! Your soul is an appalling dump-heap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots!”
— Singer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Grinch Song, Mr. Grinch, crooked, Jerky
“You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch / You're a nasty, wasty skunk / Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk / Mr. Gri-inch / The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: Stink, stank, stunk!”
— Singer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Grinch Song, Mr. Grinch, Foul
“You're a monster, Mr. Grinch / Your heart's an empty hole / Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul / Mr. Gri-inch / I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.”
— Singer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Whoville, Christmas, Grinch, Meaning of Christmas, Santa Claus, Grinch Song, Mr. Grinch
“And then all the noise. All the noise, noise, noise, NOISE! They'll bang on tong-tinglers, blow their foo-flounders, they'll crash on jang-jinglers, and bounce on boing-bounders! (Then Who's young and old will sit down to a feast, and they'll feast and they'll feast.) [while jumping angrily] And they'll feast, feast, feast, feast! They'll eat their Who pudding and rare Who roast beast! It's something I cannot stand in the least. [realizing what he's said] Oh, noǃ I'M SPEAKING IN RHY-YME! AAAHHHH! BLAST YOU, WHOS! [sobs]”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Noise, Pudding
“[smashes a glass bottle and stuffs it into his mouth] Am I just eating because I am bored?”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Bored, eating
“[After Martha say that her gifts are dazzling and The Grinch angrily ruined her new car] Of course, they are. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always been about! Gifts… gifts… Gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts! Do you know what happens to your gifts? They all come to me...in your garbage. You see what I'm saying? In your garbage! I could hang myself with all the bad Christmas neckties I found at the dump, and the avarice...the AVARICE NEVER ENDS! 'I want golf clubs! I want diamonds! I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored, and sell it to make glue!' Look, I don't wanna make waves, but this whole Christmas season is...stupid, stupid, stupid! [looks up to and advances towards Martha May Whovier] There is, however...I...teeny-tiny...Christmas tradition...I find...quite...meaningful. [snatches up a sprig of mistletoe] Mistletoe. Now, pucker up and KISS IT, Whoville! Boi-i-i-i-i-i-ing! [angrily puts a bit of mistletoe over his butt, and then waggles it; later shaves off the Mayor's hair] Uh, oh. Somebody's...fabulous! [kisses the Mayor]”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Kissing, MIstletoe
“[Frustrated] Ugh. Bleeding hearts of the world UNITE!”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Grinch, Bleeding Hearts
“I am the Grinch that stole Christmas...and I'm sorry.”
— Grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Tagged: Scrooge, Anti-Christmas, Confession, Remorse, Grinch
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