Eglentine Price Quotes in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Eglentine Price: Treguna, Makoidees, Trecorum, Sadis Dee!

Eglentine Price: You must have given us the wrong address! You don't live *here*, do you?

Mr. Browne: In point of fact I do. Temporarily, at any rate. I found the front door open, the house was deserted! Everyone has left the neighborhood.

Eglentine Price: Now why should they do that?

Mr. Browne: This probably has something to do with it.

[shows them a pit with an unexploded shell in it]

Eglentine Price: Merciful heavens! I should think you'd be *terrified* at the very idea of living here!

Mr. Browne: You'd have thought so, wouldn't you? I am by nature a *little* bit of a coward; but then I pondered, as I often do. In the perverse nature of things, this diabolical object is probably the best friend I've ever had. It has enabled me, for the first time in my life, to live like a king. Shall we go in?

Eglentine Price: I don't believe in giving animals ridiculous names. I call him Cosmic Creepers, because that's the name he came with.

Charlie Rawlins: [reading a container, disgustedly] Poisoned Dragon's Liver?

Eglentine Price: [repeating matter-of-factly] Poisoned Dragon Liver.

Paul Rawlins: You mean you poison the dragon, or just the liver?

Eglentine Price: Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee!

Charlie Rawlins: No fried foods?

Eglentine Price: No.

Charlie Rawlins: How d'you keep your health?

Eglentine Price: [singing] I don't want locomotiary substitution or remote intransitory convolution; only one precise solution is the key: substitutiary locomotion it must be!

Mr. Browne: This good lady is looking for the other half of this book.

Eglentine Price: It's called The Spells of Astoroth.

Portobello Road Book Merchant: I don't keep no torn or damaged books here. What do you think I am, a ruddy waste paper merchant?

Eglentine Price: The Spell which creates this force is 5 mystic words. These words are...

[pause as Miss Price looks at the book]

Eglentine Price: But the rest of the book is missing.

Mr. Browne: Now you see why I closed down the college.

[Ms. Price speaks the magic spell for the first time; nothing happens]

Eglentine Price: Am I doing something wrong?

Mr. Browne: Well, to tell you the truth, it does seem a bit old-fashioned. After all, we are in the twentieth century.

Eglentine Price: What do you suggest?

Mr. Browne: Well, it needs rhythm, tempo, music! As I always say: do it with a flair.

Eglentine Price: [singing] When you rush around in hopeless circles, searching everywhere for something true, you're at the age of not believing, when all the make-believe is through.

Carrie Rawlins: [speaking] That's Charlie, to a 'T'.

Eglentine Price: [still singing] When you set aside your childhood heroes, and your dreams are lost upon a shelf, you're at the age of not believing, and worst of all you doubt yourself.

[speaking; about an apple core]

Eglentine Price: Throw that into the waste basket.

[singing]

Eglentine Price: You're a castaway where no one hears you, on a barren isle in a lonely sea.

Charlie Rawlins: [speaking] What's that supposed to be, poetry?

Eglentine Price: [still singing] Where did all the happy endings go? Where can all the good times be?

[speaking]

Eglentine Price: Everyone on the bed who's going.

[singing]

Eglentine Price: You must face the age of not believing, doubting everything you ever knew. Until at last, you start believing there's something wonderful in you!

Eglentine Price: Oh, bother! I do hate shoddy work!