Peter Pan (1953) - Quotes

Taglines: It will live in your heart forever!

George: You know, I have the strangest feeling… that I've seen that ship before. A long time ago, when I was very young.

Mary: George, dear!

Wendy: Father!

Hook: [cries] You wouldn't do old Hook in now, would you, lad? I'll go away forever. I'll do anything you say!

Peter: Well, all right. If ya... Say you're a codfish.

Hook: [gulps] I'm a codfish.

Peter: Louder!

Hook: [wailing] I'M A CODFISH!!!!

Wendy and the boys: [all sing] HOORAY! Hook is a codfish!

Peter: [Throws Hook's sword away and crows like a rooster] All right, Hook. You're free to go. And never return!

Wendy: [Sees Hook ready to ambush Peter] Peter!

Hook: Fly! Fly! Fly! You coward!

Peter: Coward?! Me?

Hook: Ha-ha-ha! You wouldn't dare fight old Hook man-to-man. You'd fly away like a cowardly sparrow!

Peter: Nobody calls Pan a coward and lives! I'll fight you man-to-man, with one hand behind my back.

Hook: You mean you won't fly?

Wendy: No, don't, Peter! It's a trick!

Peter: I give my word, Hook.

Hook: Good! Then let's have at it!

Mr. Starkey: No splash, Captain.

Hook: [throws Starkey overboard] So, you want a splash, Mr. Starkey? I'll give you a splash! Who's next?!

Peter: You're next, Hook! This time you've gone too far!

Hook: Could he but see within the package? Ho-ho! He would find an ingenious little device.

Smee: Set, so that when the clock is like this...

Hook: Peter Pan... will be BLASTED out of Never Land... forever.

Wendy: No...

Hook: But time grows short. We have but... 18 seconds. 15 seconds. 13 seconds.

Peter: [Tink arrives in the very last second; Tink about to pull the ribbon in the package but he stop him] Twelve seconds. Well, I guess I can open it now. Hey, Tink. Look what Wendy left. Hey, stop that! Stop it! What's the matter with you? Hook? A bomb? Don't be ridiculous.

Hook: And so passeth... a worthy opponent.

Smee: Amen.

Peter: [realizes Tinker Bell survived the bomb; as Tinker Bell tinkling faintly; as she tinkling more faintly, he discovered to find Tinker Bell from the rubble, while debris fall in the process. As he can see her light...; Once again as the debris fall in the process. Then he crawling, about to save Tinker Bell from the debris] Hook... It was a bomb... Why, if it hadn’t been for Tink... Tinker Bell! Tink?! Tinker Bell?! Where are you, Tink?! Tink?! Tinker Bell! Tink? Are you all right? Wendy? The boys? But I've gotta save you first! Hold on, Tink! Hold on! Don't go out. Don't you understand, Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world.

Peter: Well, well. A codfish on a hook.

Hook: I'll get you for this, Pan! If it's the last thing I do!

Peter: [impersonates Hook] Mr. Smee! Just exactly what do you think you are doing?

Smee: Putting her back like you said, Captain.

Peter: I said nothing of the sort!

Smee: [stammers] But captain...!

Peter: [whilst the real Hook creeps up to him unbeknownst; echoes] For the last time, Mr. Smee, take the princess back to her people! UNDERSTAND!?

Smee: Aye-aye, sir.

Peter: Oh, and one more thing: When you return to the ship, tell the whole crew to help themselves to me best rum.

Smee: Well, at last, Captain Hook's comin to his senses.

Hook: [surprised] Odd's fish!

Smee: [to Tiger Lily] I told him all along you Indians wouldn't betray Peter Pan.

Hook: [kindly] And just what do you think you are doing, Mr. Smee?

Smee: Just what you told me, Captain: carrying out your orders.

Hook: My orders?

Smee: Why, yes, Captain. Didn't you just say to go...

Hook: [shoves the boat back into Skull Rock; to himself] Put her back, you blithering idiot! My orders. Of all the bumbling...

Indian Chief: [comes forward] How!

Lost Boys: (Cubby) Uh, how! (Slightly) How, chief!

Indian Chief: For many moons red man fight paleface Lost Boys.

Lost Boys: Ugh?

Indian Chief: Sometime you win, sometime we win.

Cubby: Okay, Chief. Uh, you win this time. Now turn us loose.

John Darling: Turn us loose? You mean this is only a game?

Slightly: Sure! When we win, we turn them loose!

Twin #1: And when they win, they turn us loose.

Twin #2: They turn us loose.

Chief: This time no turn em loose.

Lost Boys: Huh?

Slightly: [laughs] The chief's a great spoofer!

Chief: Me no spoof em. Where you hide Princess Tiger Lily?

Cubby: Uh, Tiger Lily?

Slightly: We ain't got your ol princess!

John: I've certainly never seen her.

Lost Boys: [agreeing; the twins] (Cubby) Me neither. Honestly don't.

Chief: Heap big lie! If Tiger Lily not back by sunset... Burn em at stake!

Smee: Oh, dear, dear, dear, Captain Hook. Shootin’ a man in the middle of his cadenza? That ain't good form, you know.

Hook: [waves his hook in front of Smee] Good form," Mr. Smee? Blast good form! Did Pan show good form when he did this to me?!

Smee: Why, Captain, cutting your hand off was only a childish prank, you might say.

Hook: Aye! But throwing it to that crocodile! That cursed beast liked the taste of me so well he's followed me ever since, licking his chops for the rest of me.

Skylights: Ohh, a pirate's life is a wonderful life

Wendy: I'm so glad you came back tonight. I might never have seen you.

Peter: Why?

Wendy: Because I have to grow up tomorrow.

Peter: Grow up?!

Wendy: Tonight's my last night in the nursery.

Peter: But that means no more stories!

Wendy: Mm-hmm.

Peter: No! I won't have it! Come on!

Mary: But, George, do you think the children will be safe without Nana?

George: Safe? Of course they'll be safe. Why not?

Mary: Well, Wendy said something about a shadow, and I...

George: Shadow? Whose shadow?

Mary: Peter Pan's.

George: [realizes; high, mocking voice] PETER PAN?! You don't say. Oh, goodness gracious! Whatever shall we do?!

Mary: But, George...

George: [normal voice] Sound the alarm!

Mary: Really, I...

George: Call Scotland Yard!

Mary: There must have been someone.

George: Oh, Mary, of all the impossible childish fiddle-faddle... Peter Pan, indeed. How can we expect the children grow up and be practical when you’re as bad as they are?

Mary: George, dear.

George: No wonder Wendy gets these idiotic ideas.

Narrator: All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. But this time, it happened in London. It happened in a quiet street in Bloomsbury. That corner house over there is the home of the Darling family and Peter Pan chose this particular house because there were people here who believed in him. There was Mrs. Darling.

Mary: George, dear, do hurry. We mustn’t be late for the party, you know.

Narrator: Mrs. Darling believed that Peter Pan was the spirit of youth but Mr. Darling...

George: [hits the drawer] Mary, unless I find my cuff links we don’t go to the party. And if we don’t go to the party I can never show my face in the office again... And if I can never show– OW!

Narrator: Well, Mr. Darling was a practical man. The boys, however, John and Michael, believed Peter Pan was a real person and made him the hero of all their nursery games.

John: [as Captain Hook] Blast you, Peter Pan!

Michael: [as Peter Pan] Take that! Give up, Captain Hook? You give up?

John: [as Captain Hook] Never! I'll teach you to cut off me hand!

Wendy: [coming in; chuckling] Oh, no, John, it was the "left" hand.

John: Oh, yes. Thank you, Wendy.

Narrator: All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. But this time, it happened in London. It happened on a quiet street in Bloomsbury. That corner house over there is the home of the Darling family. And Peter Pan chose this particular house, because there were people here who believed in him. There was Mrs. Darling. Mrs. Darling believed that Peter Pan was the spirit of youth. But Mr. Darling... Well, Mr. Darling was a practical man. The boys, however, John and Michael, believed Peter Pan was a real person, and made him the hero of all their nursery games. Wendy, the eldest, not only believed. She was the supreme authority on Peter Pan and all his marvelous adventures. Nana, the nursemaid, being a dog, kept her opinions to herself, and viewed the whole affair with a certain tolerance.

Captain Hook: SMEE!!!!!!!

Captain Hook: [to Tinkerbell] Captain Hook gives his word not to lay a finger, or a hook, on Peter Pan.

Peter Pan: [points at Neverland from afar] There it is, Wendy! The second star to the right and straight on till morning.