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“Michael Banks: [from trailer; as he gazes at the snow globe of St. Paul's Cathedral, then bringing out his and Jane's kite] I honestly can't remember why we kept most of this stuff to begin with.

Jane Banks: [snatching the kite away] Don't you remember that kite? We used to love flying that with Mother and Father.

Michael Banks: Those days are long behind me.”
— Michael Banks, Mary Poppins Returns
Tagged: mother, father, st. paul's cathedral
“Jane Banks: [to the children] When your father and I were young, we used to imagine Mary Poppins could do all sorts of impossible things! Those things didn't really...

Michael Banks: Happen?

Jane Banks: No, of course not.

Michael Banks: Ridiculous.

[They say this oblivious to the fact that Mary Poppins is sliding up the bannister again behind them]”
— Michael Banks, Mary Poppins Returns
Tagged: Magic
“Michael Banks: I'm sorry, I didn't mean...

Jane Banks: [interrupts] You came back! I thought we'd never see you again.

Michael Banks: It is wonderful to see you!

Mary Poppins: [primping herself in the mirror] Yes it 'tis, isn't it?”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns
Tagged: primping
“Nothing's gone forever, only out of place.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns
Tagged: impernanence
“Mary Poppins: Silence, please, it's time to go to sleep.

Jane: Oh we couldn't possibly go to sleep, so many lovely and excited things happened today!

Mary Poppins: Did they?

Jane: Yes! When we jumped into Bert's 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, don't 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, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Silence is Deafening, merry go round, horses, horse racing
“Mary Poppins: [reading the advertisement] Now about my wages; the reference here is very obscure.

Mr. Banks: [dazed] Very obscure.

Mary Poppins: We must be clear on that point, mustn't we?

Mr. Banks: Yes, we must indeed.

Mary Poppins: I shall require every second Tuesday off.

Mr. Banks: Every Tuesday.

[He stares into the fireplace]

Mary Poppins: On second thoughts, I believe a trial period would be wise.

[looks closely at him]

Mary Poppins: Hmm. I'll give you one week—I'll know by then.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Wages, paid leave
“Jane: An outing with father?

Mary Poppins: Yes.

Michael: I don't believe it!

Jane: He's never taken us on an outing before.

Michael: He's never taken us anywhere!

Jane, Mary Poppins: However did you manage it?

Mary Poppins: Manage what?

Jane: You must have put the idea in his head somehow.

Mary Poppins: What an impertinent thing to say! Me, putting ideas into people's heads? Really!

Jane: Where's he taking us?

Mary Poppins: To the bank.

Jane: Oh Michael, the city! We'll see all the sights and father can point them out to us!

Mary Poppins: Well, most things he can. Sometimes a person we love, through no fault of their own, can't see past the end of his nose.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: impertinent, Outing, father
“[Mary Poppins is leaving]

Michael: She doesn't care what happens to us.

Jane: She only promised to stay until the wind changes. Isn't that right, Mary Poppins?

Mary Poppins: Will you be good enough to fetch my hat stand, please?

Jane: Mary Poppins, don't you love us?

Mary Poppins: And what would happen to me, may I ask, if I loved all the children I said goodbye to?”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Children, Love, goodbye
“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, doesn't put things away.'

[Michael laughs]”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: stubborn, suspicious, elocution
“ [Andrew the dog comes up to Mary Poppins and starts barking]

Mary Poppins: Not so fast, please, I can't understand a word you're 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, there's not a moment to lose. I'll go straightaway! And thank you very much.

[Andrew barks]

Jane: What did he say?

Mary Poppins: He said 'You're welcome.'

Jane: What else did he say?

Michael: I don't think he said anything!

Mary Poppins: You know best, as usual”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: dog, barking, sneezing, bless you
“Spit-spot!”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: spit-spot, Spit, spot
“[singing] Stay awake, don't rest your head. Don't lie down upon your bed. While the moon drifts in the skies... Stay awake, don't close your eyes. Though the world is fast asleep, though your pillow's soft and deep, you're not sleepy as you seem; stay awake, don't nod and dream... Stay awake... don't nod... and... dream.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: stay awake, Dream, pillow
“People who get their feet wet must learn to take their medicine.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: wet feet, Medicine
“Never judge things by their appearance... even carpetbags. I'm sure I never do.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: appearances, judging, carpetbags
“We can't have them gallivanting up there like kangaroos, can we?”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: gallivanting, kangaroos
“Mr. Banks: [singing] These silly words, like...

[speaks and stammers]

Mr. Banks: Superca... superca... superca...

Mary Poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Mr. Banks: Yes, well done! You said it!”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
“Mary Poppins: [singing] Chim Chiminy, Chim Chiminy, Chim Chim Chiree! When you're with a 'sweep, you're 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, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Chim Chiminy, Chimney Sweep
“That's a pie crust promise. Easily made, easily broken.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Promise, pie crust
“Parrot Umbrella: Awk, that's gratitude for you. Didn't even say goodbye?

Mary Poppins: No, they didn't.

Parrot Umbrella: Look at them! You know, they think more of their father than they do of you!

Mary Poppins: That's as it should be.

Parrot Umbrella: Well, don't you care?

Mary Poppins: Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.

Parrot Umbrella: Is that so? Well, I'll tell you one thing, Mary Poppins: you don't 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 I'm going to keep my mouth shut any longer, I'll...

[she clamps his mouth shut]

Mary Poppins: That will be quite enough of that, thank you.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Gratitude, goodbye
“Jane: Mary Poppins, we won't let you go!

Mary Poppins: Go? What on earth are you talking about?

Michael: Didn't 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, Mary Poppins
Tagged: sacked, maypole, Hurrah, Hurray
“Mary Poppins: Our first game is called Well Begun is Half-Done.

Michael: I don't like the sound of that.

Mary Poppins: Otherwise titled Let's Tidy up the Nursery.

Michael: [to Jane] I told you she was tricky.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Tricky, Tidy Up
“Bert: It's true that Mavis and Sybil have ways that are winning, and Prudence and Gwendolyn set your heart spinning! Phoebe's delightful, Maude is disarming...

Penguins: Janice, Felicia, Lydia...

Bert: ...charming! Cynthia's dashing, Vivian's sweet! Stephanie's smashing, Priscilla's 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—it's Mary Poppins, and there we stop!”
— Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr., Mary Poppins
Tagged: singing penguins, jolly good sport, cream of the crop, Mary Poppins
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Mary Poppins was right, it's extraordinary! It does make you feel better!”
— Mr. George W. Banks, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Extraordinary
“Mary Poppins: [singing] He traveled all around the world, and everywhere he went, he'd 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, you'll always sound precocious! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, precocious, clever, Gent, Maharajahs
“[singing] Early each day to the steps of St. Paul's, the little old bird woman comes... In her own special way to the people she calls, come buy my bags full of crumbs. Come feed the little birds, show them you care, and you'll be glad if you do. Their young ones are hungry, their nests are so bare; all it takes is tuppence from you. Feed the birds, tuppence a bag. Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag... Feed the birds, that's what she cries, while overhead her birds fill the skies. All around the cathedral the saints and apostles look down as she sells her wares. Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling each time someone shows that he cares. Though her words are simple and few, listen, listen, she's calling to you. Feed the birds, tuppence a bag. Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag. Though her words are simple and few, listen, listen she's calling to you. Feed the birds, tuppence a bag. Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: St. Paul's, tuppence, Birds
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I'm feeling better all the time!”
— Mr. George W. Banks, Mary Poppins
“Say no more, Gov'ner. [sings] You've got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone... Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve... And all too soon they've up and grown, and then they've flown... And it's too late for you to give — just that spoonful of sugar to 'elp the medicine go down—the medicine go dow-own—medicine go down. [speaks again] Well, so long, Gov'ner. Sorry to have troubled you.”
— Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr., Mary Poppins
Tagged: Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
“Mary Poppins: First of all I would like to make one thing quite clear.

George: Yes?

Mary Poppins: I never explain anything.”
— Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins
Tagged: explanations
“Let's sit down. You know, begging you pardon, but the one who my heart goes out for is your father. There he is in that cold, heartless bank day after day, hemmed in by mounds of cold, heartless money. I don't like to see any living thing caged up.”
— Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr., Mary Poppins
Tagged: banks, The Rich, wealth envy, Irony, cold, Heartless
“Bert: Speaking of names, I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.

Uncle Albert: What's the name of his other leg?

Everyone: [laughs]”
— Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr., Mary Poppins
Tagged: Literal, wooden leg

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