12 Classic Willy Wonka Quotes From 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory'
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'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' is a children's novel by the British author Roald Dahl published in 1964.
The book was adapted to a movie, 'Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory' in 1971 where the legendary Gene Wilder portrayed the character of Willy Wonka. Subsequently, Johnny Depp played the eccentric chocolatier character in the 2005 musical fantasy film 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.'
The story is about a poor and impoverished boy Charlie Bucket, who, along with four other children, receive the golden ticket to visit Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory for a tour.
The factory is a wonderland of candies and confectioneries where all the children, except Charlie, give in to their impulses and are evicted from the tour in funny yet satirical ways.
Eventually, Charlie is the only one who remains and Willy Wonka tells him that the entire tour was planned to help him find an heir to his chocolate business. Due to his innate goodness, Charlie passes the test and is invited by Willy Wonka to live in the factory.
We have some of the best Willy Wonka quotes here that are iconic even to this day, like when Willy Wonka says, "so shines a good deed in a weary world", when Charlies gives him the Gobstopper!
To read more funny quotes, check out ['Alice In Wonderland' quotes] and 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' quote.
Funny Willy Wonka Quotes
Here are some of the funniest quotes by Willy Wonka that show the sass king he is!
1. "Willy Wonka: Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those parasitic copycat candy making cads?
Grandpa Joe: No, sir.
Willy Wonka: Then wonderful, welcome back."
-'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory', 2005.
2. "Willy Wonka: She was a bad egg.
Mr. Salt: Where'd she go?
Willy Wonka: Where all the other bad eggs go. Down the garbage chute."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
3. "Willy Wonka: Rainbow drops. Suck them and you can spit in seven different colors!
Violet Beauregarde: [digging her nostril] Spitting's a dirty habit.
Willy Wonka: I know a worse one."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
4. "Mrs. Gloop: Don't just stand there, do something!
Willy Wonka: Help...police...murder."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
5. "We have so much time and so little to see. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
6. "The suspense is terrible... I hope it'll last."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
7. "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
8. "Willy Wonka: Try some more. The strawberries taste like strawberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries.
Veruca Salt: Snozzberries? Who ever heard of a snozzberry?
Willy Wonka: [pinching Veruca's mouth to hold it open] We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
9. "A little nonsense now and then relished by the wisest men."
-'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', 1971.
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10. "Because the taste would be terrible. Just imagine it! Augustus-flavoured chocolate-coated Gloop! No one would buy it."
-Willy Wonka, chapter 17, 'Augustus Gloop Goes Up The Pipe', 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory', 1964.
11. "They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh, what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles."
-Willy Wonka, chapter 16, 'The Oompa-Loompas', 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory', 1964.
12. "Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!"
-Willy Wonka, chapter 18, 'Down The Chocolate River', 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory', 1964.
13. "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction they are going! There's no knowing where they're rowing, or which way the river's flowing!"
-Willy Wonka, chapter 18, 'Down The Chocolate River', 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory', 1964.
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14. "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be."
-Willy Wonka, 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'.
15. "Time is a precious thing. Never waste it."
-Willy Wonka, 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'.
16. "Willy Wonka: But Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
Charlie: What happened?
Willy Wonka: He lived happily ever after."
-Willy Wonka, 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'.
17. "Mr. Salt: Wonka. Butterscotch? Buttergin? Got a little something going on the side?
Willy Wonka: Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker."
-Willy Wonka, 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'.
18. "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world... there's nothing to it."
-Willy Wonka, 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'.
19. "If the good Lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates."
-Willy Wonka, 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'.
20. "You stole fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!"
-Willy Wonka, 'Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory'.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for Willy Wonka quotes then why not take a look at Anne Of Green Gables quotes, or 'Alice Through The Looking Glass' quotes.
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