Fauna Quotes in Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Fauna Quotes:
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Fauna: Maleficent doesn't know anything about love, or kindness, or the joy of helping others. You know, sometimes I don't think she's really very happy.
-- Fauna -
Maleficent: Listen well, all of you.
[clangs her scepter against the floor]
Maleficent: The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But... before the sun sets on her 16th birthday, she shall prick her finger - on the spindle of a spinning wheel - and DIE!
Queen: [clutching the baby Aurora] Oh no!
[Maleficent laughs]
King Stefan: Seize that creature!
Maleficent: Stand back, you fools!
[laughing, she disappears in a burst of green fire]
Flora: Don't despair, Your Majesties. Merryweather still has *her* gift to give.
King Stefan: Then, she can undo this fearful curse?
Merryweather: Oh no, Sire!
Flora: Maleficent's powers are far too great.
Fauna: But she can help.
-- Fauna -
Merryweather: I'd like to turn her into a fat ol' - hop toad.
Fauna: Now, dear, that isn't a very nice thing to say.
Flora: Besides, we can't. You know our magic doesn't work that way.
Fauna: It can only do good, dear, to bring joy and happiness.
Merryweather: Well, *that* would make me happy.
-- Fauna -
[Fauna finishes lighting the candles on Aurora's birthday cake and it begins to fall over]
Fauna: Well, what do you think of it?
Flora: Why, it... it's a very unusual cake, isn't it?
Fauna: Yes... of course, it will be much stiffer after it's baked.
Flora: Of course, dear. Well, what do you think of the dress?
[Aurora's dress which Merryweather is wearing is revealed to be in worse shape than the cake]
Fauna: Well, uh, it's... it isn't exactly the way it is in the book, is it...
Flora: Oh, I improved it. But perhaps if I added a few more ruffles... eh, what do you think?
Fauna: Um, I think so. What do you think, Merryweather?
Merryweather: I think we've had enough of this nonsense! I think we ought to think of Rose, and what *she'll* think of this mess!
[stalks off and the dress falls apart]
Merryweather: And I still think what I thunk before: I'm going to get those wands.
[exits]
Fauna: You know, I think she's right.
-- Fauna -
Fauna: Rose!
Flora: Rose!
Merryweather: Don't touch...
Fauna, Flora, Merryweather: ANYTHING!
[their voices echo; Aurora pulls her hand away from the spindle for a moment]
Maleficent: Touch the spindle. Touch it I say!
[Aurora pricks her finger on the spindle; the fairies enter the room, but gasp when they see Maleficent]
Maleficent: You poor, simple fools. Thinking you could defeat me. Me! The mistress of all evil! Well, here's your precious *princess*!
[she pulls her cape back to reveal the now sleeping Aurora; laughing, she disappears]
-- Fauna -
Fauna: Now, yeast, one tsp. Tsp?
Merryweather: One teaspoon.
Fauna: One teaspoon, of course!
-- Fauna -
Fauna: She's in love!
Merryweather: Oh, no!
Flora: This is terrible!
Princess Aurora: Why? After all, I am sixteen.
Flora: It isn't that, dear.
Fauna: You're already betrothed.
Princess Aurora: Betrothed?
Merryweather: Since the day you were born.
Fauna: To Prince Phillip, dear.
Princess Aurora: But that's impossible. How could I marry a prince? I'd have to be...
Merryweather: A princess.
Fauna: And you are, dear.
Flora: Princess Aurora. Tonight we're taking you back to your father, King Stefan.
Princess Aurora: But... but I can't! He's coming here tonight. I promised to meet him.
Flora: I'm sorry, child. But you must never see that young man again.
Princess Aurora: Oh no. No! I can't believe it, no! No!
[she runs to her room, sobbing]
-- Fauna -
Flora: [Fauna cries at Aurora's and Phillip's wedding] Why Fauna, what's the matter, dear?
Fauna: Oh... I just love happy endings.
Flora: Yes. I do t...
[Sees Aurora's dress, gasps]
Flora: Oh... *blue*!
-- Fauna -
Flora: I'll turn her into a flower.
Merryweather: Maleficent?
Flora: [chuckles] No, no, dear. The princess.
Fauna: Oh, she'd make a lovely flower.
Flora: [enthusiastically] Don't you see? A flower can't prick its finger.
Merryweather: It hasn't any.
Fauna: That's right.
Flora: She'll be perfectly safe.
Merryweather: Until Maleficent sends a frost.
Flora: [laughs, then stops abruptly] Yes... oh dear.
Fauna: She always ruins your nicest flowers.
-- Fauna -
[preparing for Aurora's birthday party]
Merryweather: But, I never baked a *fancy* cake.
Flora: Oh, you won't have to, dear!
Fauna: [gleefully] *I'm* going to bake the cake!
Merryweather: *You*?
Flora: Oh, she's always wanted to, dear, and this is her last chance.
Merryweather: [doubtfully] Well...
Fauna: I'm going to make it 15 layers with pink and blue forget-me-nots.
Fauna: And *I'm* making the dress.
Merryweather: But you can't sew! And she's *never* cooked!
Flora: Oh-ho-ho, it's simple.
Fauna: All you do is follow the book!
Flora: [putting Merryweather on a stool] Up here, dear. You can be the dummy.
Merryweather: Well, I still say we oughta use magic.
-- Fauna -
[the fairies rush to the cottage to find Phillip's hat on the floor]
Flora, Merryweather, Fauna: Maleficent!
Merryweather: She's got Prince Phillip!
Flora: At the Forbidden Mountain.
Fauna: But we can't, we can't go there!
Flora: We can, and we must!
-- Fauna -
[after the fairies place the sleeping Aurora on the bed in the highest castle tower]
Fauna: [sadly] Poor King Stefan and the Queen.
Merryweather: They'll be heartbroken when they find out.
Flora: [wiping away a tear] They're not going to.
Merryweather: They aren't? But...
Flora: We'll put them *all* to sleep, until Rose awakens.
-- Fauna -
Princess Aurora: [on her return from picking berries] Aunt Flora? Fauna? Merrywether?
[closes the door, but finds the house silent]
Princess Aurora: Where is everybody?
Princess Aurora: [gasps as she sees her new dress draped over a chair and rushes toward it eagerly] Oh!
Flora, Fauna, Merryweather: [appearing from their hiding place] Surprise! Surprise! Happy Birthday!
Princess Aurora: Oh, you darlings! This is the happiest day of my life! Everything's *so* wonderful!
-- Fauna -
Flora: [to Aurora, seating her before a mirror] And now dear, if you'll just sit here. This one last gift, dear child, for thee.
[she, Fauna, and Merryweather magically conjure up a crown]
Flora: The symbol of thy royalty.
[as she ceremoniously places the crown on Aurora's head]
Flora: A crown to wear in grace and beauty; as is thy right, and royal duty.
[Aurora puts her head in her arms and weeps]
Fauna: [comfortingly] Now, dear...
Flora: Come. Let her have a few moments alone.
[they walk out]
Merryweather: It's that boy she met.
Fauna: Whatever are we going to do?
[back in the room, the fire goes out and a hovering green flame appears; Aurora rises, entranced, and begins walking toward it to eerie music]
Merryweather: [irked] Ooh, I don't see why she has to marry any old... *prince*!
Fauna: Now, that's not for us to decide, dear.
[Aurora continues to follow the flame; a doorway appears in the fireplace]
Fauna: [to Flora] Maybe we *should* tell King Stefan about the boy.
Merryweather: Well, why don't we?
Flora: [listening at the door] Listen!
[gasps]
Flora: Maleficent! Rose!
[they rush in]
Flora, Fauna: Rose!
[they gasp, seeing Aurora step through the doorway in the fireplace]
Fauna: Oh, why did we leave her alone? Rose!
Flora, Fauna, Merryweather: [they rush towards the doorway; it vanishes] Rose!
-- Fauna -
Princess Aurora: [Excitedly] Just wait until you meet him!
Fauna: Him?
Merryweather: Rose?
Flora: You've met some stranger?
Princess Aurora: Oh, he's not a stranger. We've met before.
Flora: You have?
Merryweather: Where?
Princess Aurora: Once upon a dream. I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream...
[Starts dancing with Fauna]
-- Fauna -
Suzy: [Talking about Doc] So he's just hiding out.
Fauna: He ain't hiding out. He just ain't putting his self forward for comment, that's all.
-- Fauna -
Fauna: The stars say that you are gonna be - oh... that you are gonna be President of the United States!
Mack: I don't believe it.
Hazel: I don't wanna be no President!
Fauna: You got no choice; the stars have spoke. You'll just have to go to Washington.
Hazel: But I don't want to! I don't know nobody there!
Fauna: I'm sorry, Hazel.
Hazel: Ain't there any way I can tell 'em I won't do it?
Fauna: No.
Hazel: [sobbing] A thing like this could ruin my whole life!
-- Fauna -
Fauna: Just trust me, will ya? I know what goes over in this town.
-- Fauna
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