70+ Famous And Inspirational Mary Poppins Quotes From The Book & Movie

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and – SNAP – the job’s a game.

Mr. Dawes Sr.
: Well, Banks – have you anything to say for yourself?George Banks
: Well, sir, they say that when you have nothing to say, all you can say is…Mr. Dawes Sr.
: Confound it, Banks! I said do you have anything to say!George Banks
: Only one thing, sir…Mr. Dawes Sr.
: Eh?George Banks
: Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious!

If you want to find cherry-tree lane all you have to do is ask the policeman at the cross-roads.

I never explain anything

Mary poppins never told anybody anything. . . .

She wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band.

Bert: Bert will take care of you. Like I was your own father. Now who’s after you?
Jane: Father is.
Bert: What?

My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the jungle, you of the city. The same substance composes us—the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star—we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.” “but.

Bert: Here we are, number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, residence of George Banks Esq.
Bert: ‘ello, ‘ello, ‘ello? Admiral’s right. ‘eavy weather brewing at Number 17 and no mistake.

[George and Winifred are talking about the failure of their previous nanny]
Winifred: I’m sorry, dear, but when I chose Katie Nana, I thought she would be firm with the children. She seemed so solemn and cross.
George: My dear, never confuse efficiency with a liver complaint.

Robertson ay was sitting in the garden busily doing nothing.

This is your new nurse, mary poppins.

Michael: I want it to feed the birds.Mr.
Dawes Sr: Fiddlesticks, Boy. Feed the birds and what have you got? Fat birds.

He knew, the moment he opened his eyes, that something was wrong but he was not quite sure what it was.

Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts.

Oh, George, you didn’t jump into the river. How sensible of you!

What did I tell ya? There’s the whole world at your feet. And who gets to see it? But the birds, the stars and the chimney sweeps.

George: Ellen, stop making that offensive noise. And shut the window. That bird is giving me a headache.
Ellen: Yes, sir! [to the bird] Quiet! You’re giving the master an ‘eadache.[The bird chirps one last time and Ellen shuts the window.]

You must be very old!” said jane.

Good-bye,” said michael to the bird woman. “feed the birds,” she replied, smiling. “good-bye,” said jane. “tuppence a bag!” said the bird woman and waved her hand.

Mary Poppins: So if the cat has got your tongue, there’s no need for dismay / Just summon up this word and then you’ve got a lot to say / But better use it carefully or it could change your life…
Mary Poppins: Yes?

The whole world takes it’s time from Greenwich, but Greenwich, they say, takes it’s time from Admiral Boom.

Mary poppins,” he cried, “you’ll never leave us, will you?.

Bert: Aw, Mrs. Corey.
A story for you: your daughters were shorter than you, but they grew.

Winds in the east, there’s a mist coming in, like something is brewing, about to begin.

Bert: I’ll do it myself.
Mary Poppins: Do what?
Bert: A bit of magic. It’s easy. You think. You wink. You do a double blink. You close your eyes… And jump.
Jane: Is something supposed to happen?

Bert: Uncle Albert, I got a jolly joke for just such an occasion. Would you like to hear it?
Uncle Albert: I’d be so grateful.
Bert: Well it’s about me granddad, see, and one night he has a nightmare. So bad, he chewed his pillow to bits. Bits. In the morning, I says, “How you feeling, Granddad?” He says, “Oh not bad, a little down in the mouth”.
Bert: I always say there’s nothing like a good joke.
Uncle Albert: And that was nothing like a good joke.

We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the jungle, you of the city. The same substance composes us—the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star—we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

Horseman: View halloo!
Horse: Oh, yes, definitely. A view halloo.
Fox: View halloo?! [The horseman blows a trumpet, causing his dogs to go charge at the Fox.] Faith and begora, it’s them redcoats again!

She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.

She’s something special, you see. Not in the matter of looks, of course. One of my own day-old chicks is handsomer than mary p. Ever was.

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a fairyland of their own?.

Bert: You’re a man of high position, esteemed by your peers. And when your little tykes are crying, you haven’t 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, Gov’ner. 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 – medicine go down – medicine go down. Well, so long, Gov’ner. Sorry to have troubled you.

Jane: Good morning, father. Mary Poppins taught us the most wonderful word.
Michael: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.George W.
Banks: What on Earth are you talking about? Superca – Super – or whatever the infernal thing is.
Jane: It’s something to say when you don’t know what to say.George W.
Banks: Yes, well, I always know what to say.

Winds from the east… Mist comin’ in… Like somethin’ was brewin’, about to begin… Can’t put me finger on what lies in store… But I feel what’s to ‘appen, all ‘appened before…!

Burt, what utter nonsense!

Horseman: View hallo!
Fox: View hallo? Faith and begora, it’s them redcoats again!

Close your mouth please, Michael, we are not a codfish.

He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.

Bert: Speaking of sight, it reminds me of me brother. He’s got a nice cushy job in a watch factory.
Uncle Albert: In a watch factory? What does he do?
Bert: [laughs] He stands about all day and makes faces!
Uncle Albert: [laughs] He makes faces in a watch factory!

George Banks: 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.

[After Jane and Michael realized that the man who startled them was only Bert as a chimney sweep for the day]
Jane: Bert. It’s you.
Bert: In the flesh and at your service.
Michael: You’re filthy.
Bert: Oh. Perhaps a smudge or two? It so happens that today, I’m a chimney sweep.
Jane: Oh, Bert, we’re so frightened!
Bert: Now, now, don’t take on so. Bert will look after you. Like I was your own father. Now who’s after you?
Jane: Father is.
Bert: What?

Michael: [about his tuppence] I want it to feed the birds.Mr.
Dawes Sr: Fiddlesticks, boy. Feed the birds and what have you got? Fat birds. But…[sings] If you invest your tuppence wiselyin the bank safe and sound,soon, the tuppence, safely invested in the bank,will compound.And you’ll achieve that sense of conquest as you affluence expandsin the hands of the directors who invest… [coughs] …As propriety… [coughs again] …Demands. [coughs once more]
George: May I, Sir?Mr.
Dawes Sr: Carry on, Banks.

Mr. Dawes Sr.
: When stand the banks of England, England stands – whoa, whoa…!Mr. Dawes Sr.
: When fall the banks of England… ENGLAND FALLS!

Mary poppins walked down the garden path and opened the gate. Once outside in the lane, she set off walking very quickly as if she were afraid the afternoon would run away from her if she didn’t keep up with it. At the corner she turned to the right and then to the left, nodded haughtily to the policeman, who said it was a nice day, and by that time she felt that her day out had begun.

Bert: Speaking of names, I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.
Uncle Albert: What’s the name of his other leg?

[As George puts his head down in the fireplace, to look for his children’s ad, which he ripped up, and is now mended in Mary Poppins’ hand.]
Mary Poppins: I beg your pardon, are you ill?
George: I hope not.

Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious!

Just a spoon-ful of sugar helps the medicine go down…

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.

Winds in the east, mist coming in, / Like somethin’ is brewin’ and bout to begin. / Can’t put me finger on what lies in store, / But I fear what’s to happen all happened before.

Mary Poppins: 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, practically perfect in every way.

Bert: You think… you wink… you do a double blink. You close your eyes, and JUMP.
Jane: Was something supposed to happen?
Mary Poppins: Bert, what utter nonsense. Why do you always complicate things that are really quite simple. Give me your hand please Michael. Don’t slouch. One, two…

George
Banks: Have this piano repaired. When I sit down to an instrument, I like to have it in tune.Mrs.
Banks: But George, you don’t play.
George
Banks: Madam, that is entirely beside the point!

Don’t you know,” she said pityingly, “that everybody’s got a fairyland of their own?.

Bert: 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.
Jane: Father in a cage?
Bert: They makes cages in all sizes and shapes, you know. Bank-shaped some of ’em, carpets and all.

Just as I thought. “Mary Poppins, pratically perfectly in every way.

[Having seen Mary Poppins’s first arrival as she’s floating down from the sky.]
Michael: Perhaps it’s a witch.
Jane: Of course not. Witches have brooms.

She’s saying it! she’s saying it!” cried jane, holding tight to herself for fear she would break in two with delight. And she was saying it. The bird woman was there and she was saying it. “feed the birds, tuppence a bag! feed the birds, tuppence a bag! feed the birds, feed the birds, tuppence a bag, tuppence a bag!.

The same substance composes us–the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star–we are all one, all moving to the same end.

So it was settled, and that was how the banks family came to live at number seventeen, with mrs. Brill to cook for them.

Well, if you must you must.

And what’s more, he’ll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him…his friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend.

Mrs.
Banks: She seemed so solemn and cross.George
Banks: Never confuse efficiency with a liver complaint.

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

Mary poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.

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 perfectly clear.Mr.
Banks: Yes?
Mary Poppins: I never explain anything.

George: [As they arrive at the bank where George works] We must be on our best behavior.
Michael: But I thought it was your bank.
George: Well, I’m one of the younger officers, so in a sense it is. Sort of.

A friend of mine went to buy some long underwear. The shopkeeper asked him, “How long do you want it?” And my friend said, “From about September to March”.

Gentleman: There probably aren’t words to describe your emotions.
Mary Poppins: On the contrary, there’s a very good word. Am I right, Bert?
Bert: Tell ’em what is it.
Mary Poppins: Right. Iiiiit’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty.

Mary Poppins: Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that’s going a bit too far, don’t you think?
Bert: Indubitably.

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 a treat.
Penguins: Veronica, Millicent, Agnes, and Jane.
Bert: Convivial company, time and again. Dorcas and Phyllis and Glynis are sorts I’ll agree are three jolly good sports But cream of the crop, tip of the top It’s Mary Poppins, and there we stop.

Well, au revoir, one and all.

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 hasn’t broken a dish all morning.Mr.
Banks: Really. Well, that is extraordinary.

I’ll stay till the wind changes,” she said.

Mary poppins sighed with pleasure, however, when she saw three of herself, each wearing a blue coat with silver buttons and a blue hat to match. She thought it was such a lovely sight that she wished there had been a dozen of her or even thirty. The more mary poppins the better.

I hate being good.
-mary poppins.

Bert: Reminds me of a guy I know who got a cushy job in a watch factor.
Uncle Albert: What does he do?
Bert: He stands about all day and makes faces.
Uncle Albert: Ha ha ha. He makes faces in a watch factory.

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

Mary Poppins: You know, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that’s going a bit too far, don’t you think?
Bert: Indubitably.
Mary Poppins: [sings] So if the cat has got your tongue, there’s no need for dismay…
Bert: Here, here.
Mary Poppins: [sings] Just summon up this word and then you’ve 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 girl’s me wife. [Wife hits him with tambourine] Ow! And a lovely thing she is, too.

There they were, all together, up in the air.