Mr. Bumble Quotes in Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)

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Mr. Bumble Quotes:

  • Mr. Bumble: It's my daughter's right to listen to what her little heart says, and it just don't seem to say "Beetle".

  • Hoppity: I told you we belong here in the garden. The lady human said so. You heard her.

    Mr. Bumble: Gosh! And she knew my name.

  • Mrs. Sowerberry: Is the boy mad?

    Mr. Bumble: Tis not madness, Ma'am, it's meat

    Mrs. Sowerberry: Meat?

    Mr. Bumble: Meat, ma'am, meat! If you kept the boy on gruel this would have never have happened.

    Mrs. Sowerberry: Oh my, this is what comes of being liberal.

  • Mr. Bumble: Oliver Twist has asked for more?

    Mr. Limbkins: FOR MORE!

  • Oliver Twist: Please sir, I want some more.

    Mr. Bumble: [thinking he must not have heard right] What?

    Oliver Twist: Please sir, I want some...

    [pauses hesitatingly]

    Oliver Twist: more?

    Mr. Bumble: [surprised beyond belief] More?

  • Mr. Brownlow: In the eyes of the law, you are the more guilty of the two, for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction.

    Mr. Bumble: If that's what the law supposes, sir, then the law is a ass! If that be the eyes of the law, sir, then the law is a bachelor!

  • [about Oliver]

    Mr. Bumble: Mother came to us destitute. Brings a child into the world, takes one look at him and promptly dies - -without leaving so much as a forwarding name and address!

  • Mr. Brownlow: The law assumes that your wife acts under your direction.

    Mr. Bumble: If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor. And the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience.

  • Mr. Bumble: Cry your hardest now, it opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes and softens down the temper. So cry away.

  • Mr. Bumble: You'll make your fortune, Mr Sowerberry.

    Mr. Sowerberry: The prices allowed by the board are very small.

    Mr. Bumble: So are the coffins.

  • Mr. Bumble: Where is this audacious young savage?

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