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Humbug Quotes:

  • The Terrible Trivium: Hello, little boy. Welcome to you, your faithful dog, and that handsome gentleman. I'm so terribly happy to see all of you. But before you travel on, I wonder if you could spare me a little time and asssist me with a few trivial tasks?

    Humbug: Why of course, we're in no hurry.

    The Terrible Trivium: Now young man, if you will take these exquisite tweezers, and move this pile of sand from here, to here.

    Milo: With these?

    The Terrible Trivium: Of course. And you sir, have the privilege of taking this delicate needle for digging a hole through this cliff.

    Humbug: Why, thank you sir! An exacting assignment, quite worthy of my talents. I shall enjoy it no end.

    The Terrible Trivium: And you sir, get to take this eye-dropper and empty that well.

    Milo: But these tasks don't seem very important.

    The Terrible Trivium: Of course they're not important! If you always do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones!

    Tock: Now I know who you are! You're the Terrible Trivium!

    The Terrible Trivium: Quite correct! The Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks, ogre of wasted effort!

    Milo: Come on, Humbug, let's get out of here!

    The Terrible Trivium: [advancing] And *friend* to lazy and foolish people everywhere!

  • The Terrible Trivium: Come back. Come back! There are so many things to take away, and things to bring back!

    Humbug: [being dragged away by Tock and Milo] So many stamps to lick; so many pencils to sharpen.

    The Terrible Trivium: There are so many holes to dig!

    Humbug: So many nails to straighten.

    The Terrible Trivium: So many doodles to doodle!

    Humbug: So many goofs to oof.

    The Terrible Trivium: Come back! There are so many useless things yet to do!

    Humbug: There are strings to tie, nits to pick, fingernails to bite, paperclips to unbend...

    [sees that he is hanging over a cliff]

    Humbug: LIVES TO SAVE!

  • Humbug: A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

  • Humbug: Could you show us the biggest number there is? That will give him something to figure out.

    The MathemaGician: Very well, Sir Humbug. What's the biggest number you can think of?

    Humbug: 9,999,999,000,999 and... nine tenths!

    The MathemaGician: Very good. Now add one to it.

    Humbug: Add one?

    The MathemaGician: Now, add one to that. Add one again. Add one again. Add one again. Add one again.

    Milo: But he'd never be able to stop that way.

    The MathemaGician: Never, for the number you hope for is always at least one higher than the one you had, and that's so large that if you started saying it yesterday, you wouldn't finish until tomorrow.

  • Humbug: If there's one thing I can't abide, it's a hypocrite.

  • Humbug: What are we going to do now?

    Milo: Do? Why, we're going to take a stand right here!

    Humbug: [Looking down at the cliff] I think jumping would be safer.

  • Humbug: Oh, come now, don't be ill-mannered - isn't someone going to introduce me to this little boy? A fine manly little fellow...

    Spelling Bee: This is the Humbug - H-U-M-B-U-G- A very dislikable fellow.

    Humbug: Nonsense! Everyone loves a Humbug. 'Insectius Humbugius,' if I may use the Latin.

    Spelling Bee: 'Insectius Humbugius?' Why, you fraud! You can't even spell your own name!

  • Demon of Insincerity: [offscreen] Trapped ya didn't I? I'm the long-nosed, curly-haired, wide-mouthed, bow-legged big-footed monster! And if I do say so myself, I'm one of the most dreaded fiends in the whole, wide wilderness!

    [evil laugh]

    Humbug: I-it sounds like we're doomed!

    Milo: Sounds is right. If there's one thing I've learned around here, it's that people aren't always what they say they are.

    Milo: [Milo climbs to the top of the hole]

    Demon of Insincerity: With awful hideous me here, you wouldn't dare try to escape! Why I'll tear anyone apart that ever tries to get out of there!

    [Milo reaches the top and sees that the monster is a tiny, rat-like creature]

    Demon of Insincerity: For I'm the long-nosed, curly-haired, wide-mouthed, thick-necked, broad-shouldered, round-bodied, short-armed bow-legged big-footed monster! One false move and I'll... I'll chew up the lot of you, I'll rip you to ribbons, uh, I'll shred you to hamburger... uh... Oh, actually I'm the demon of Insincerity. I don't mean what I say, I don't mean what I do, I'm just mean I guess. Now you had to go and spoil everything!

    [exits crying]

    Humbug: Well, if he's typical of the monsters around here, we have nothing to worry about.

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