Maggot Quotes in The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Major John Reisman: Any questions?

Maggot: Suh? Do we have to eat with niggahs?

[Jefferson jumps Maggot]

Sergeant Clyde Bowren: [as Reisman exits the room] : What's going on, sir?

Major John Reisman: Oh, the gentleman from the South had a question about the dining arrangements. He and his comrades are discussing place settings now.

Maggot: It's judgment day, sinners! Come out, come out wherever you are!

Maggot: [singing] What does that wispy little brat have that you don't have double?

Black Widow Spider: [singing] She can't hold a candle to the beauty of your smile!

The Corpse Bride: How about a pulse?

Maggot: Overrated by a mile!

Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overvalued! Overblown! If he only knew the you that we know!

Black Widow Spider: [singing] And that silly little creature isn't wearing his ring.

Maggot: [singing] And she doesn't play piano,

Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Or dance, or sing. No she doesn't compare!

The Corpse Bride: But she still breaths air...

Maggot, Black Widow Spider: Who cares?

Maggot: Unimportant!

Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.

The Corpse Bride: [singing] If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. If you cut me with a knife, it's still the same. And I know her heart is beating, and I know that I am dead; yet the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real, and it seems that I still have a tear to shed.

Maggot: [singing] The sole redeeming feature from that little creature is that she's alive.

Black Widow Spider: Overrated!

Maggot: Overblown!

Black Widow Spider: [singing] Everybody knows that's just a temporary state, which is cured very quickly when we meet our fate.

Maggot: Who cares?

Black Widow Spider: Unimportant!

Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.

The Corpse Bride: If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. In the ice or in the sun, it's all the same. Yet I feel my heart is aching; thou it doesn't beat, it's breaking; and the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real. I know that I am dead; yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed.

Maggot: Let me at him! Let me at him! Don't hold me back!

Elder Gutknecht: [holding crowd back] Wait! We must abide by their rules! We are amongst the living.

Barkis Bittern: Well said.

[drinks potion]

Maggot: [after Lord Barkis drinks potion] Not anymore!

Elder Gutknecht: Yep. You're right. He's all yours.

Victor Van Dort: But I don't even know your name.

Maggot: [from inside the Corpse Bride's head] Well, that's a great way to start a marriage.

The Corpse Bride: [grasps head and hisses] Sshh! Shut up!

[smiles at Victor]

The Corpse Bride: It's Emily.

Maggot: You don't know me, but I used to live in your dead mother.

Maggot: If I hadn't just been sitting in it, I would say that you'd lost your mind!

The Corpse Bride: ...I'm sure he has a perfectly good reason... for taking so long...

Maggot: Oh, I am sure he does. Why don't you go ask him?

The Corpse Bride: All right, I will!

Maggot: After all, he couldn't get far - with those cold feet...

Paul The Head Waiter: Coming through, coming through. My name is Paul, the head waiter. I will be creating your wedding feast.

Maggot: [popping out the Corpse Bride's eye] Wedding feast, I'm salivating.

The Corpse Bride: [pushing the maggot back into her eye] Maggots.

[laughs]

Maggot: [after Emily loses her leg and falls down] Psst, hey, I think you dropped something.