Mr. Darling Quotes in Peter Pan (2003)

Mr. Darling: [shouting] No. I must become a man that children fear and adults respect, or we shall all end up in the street.

Mrs. Darling: George, not so loud.

Aunt Millicent: George, the neighbors will hear.

Mr. Darling: Let them hear. Let the whole world know. This

[indicating Nanna]

Mr. Darling: is not a nurse. This... is a dog.

[to Wendy]

Mr. Darling: Tomorrow, you will begin your instruction with Aunt Millicent. It's time for you to grow up.

Mr. Darling: [seeing the pirate ship floating in the sky back to Never Land] You know, I have the strangest feeling that I've seen that ship before. A long time ago, when I was very young.

Mrs. Darling: But, George, do you think the children will be safe without Nana?

Mr. Darling: Safe? Of course they'll be safe. Why not?

Mrs. Darling: Well, Wendy said something about a shadow, and I...

Mr. Darling: Shadow? Whose shadow?

Mrs. Darling: Peter Pan's.

Mr. Darling: Oh, Peter Pan... Peter Pan! You don't say!

Mr. Darling: [high, mocking voice] Goodness gracious, whatever shall we do?

Mrs. Darling: But George...

Mr. Darling: Sound the alarm!

Mrs. Darling: Really, I...

Mr. Darling: Call Scotland Yard!

Mr. Darling: Wendy, haven't I warned you? Stuffing the boys heads with a lot of silly stories?

Wendy: Oh, but they aren't.

Mr. Darling: I say they are. Captain Crook! Peter Pirate!

Wendy: Peter Pan, Father.

Mr. Darling: Pan... Pirate... Poppycock!

Wendy: Oh, no, Father!

John: Oh my gosh!

Wendy: How can you...?

Mr. Darling: Absolute poppycock!

Mrs. Darling: Now, George...

Mr. Darling: "Now, George". "Now, George"! Well, "now, George" will have his say!

Wendy: Oh! Mother, we're back!

Mr. Darling: Back?

Wendy: All except the lost boys. They were not quite ready.

Mr. Darling: Lost boys? Ready?

Wendy: To grow up. That's why they went back to Neverland.

Mr. Darling: Neverland?

Wendy: Well... I am.

Mr. Darling: Am...?

Wendy: Uh... ready to grow up.

Mr. Darling: Oh, oh! Well, my dear...

Wendy: Oh, we had such a wonderful time! Well, except when we were kidnapped...

Mr. Darling: Kidnapped?

Wendy: We had lots of fun with Tinker Bell, and the mermaids, and Peter Pan! Oh, he was the most wonderful person of them all! And then we called him a codfish!

[giggles]

Wendy: Uh... Captain Hook, I mean.

[calms down and starts talking in a dreamy tone]

Wendy: And then... we sailed away on a ship in the sky.

Mr. Darling: [weirded out by Wendy's story, yawns] Mary, I'm going to bed.

[Mr. Darling is putting out Nana for the night and he leashes her with a rope to her doghouse. She looks at him sadly]

Mr. Darling: Dash it all, Nana, don't look at me like that. It's nothing personal, it's just that... well, you're not really a nurse at all, you're... well, a dog. And the children aren't puppies, they're people. And sooner or later, Nana, people have to grow up.

Mrs. Darling: George, dear, do hurry. We mustn't be late for the party, you know.

Narrator: Mrs. Darling believed that Peter Pan was a great hero, but Mr. Darling...

Mr. Darling: Mary, unless I find my cufflinks, we don't go to the party! If we don't go to the party, I can never show my face in the office again! If I could ever...

[hits his head on the drawer]

Mr. Darling: Ouch!

Narrator: Well... Mr. Darling was a practical man.

Mrs. Darling: [in intertitles] When I came into the room tonight, I saw a face at the window...

Mrs. Darling: [in intertitles] ... the face of a little boy.

Mr. Darling: [in intertitles] Two flights up?

Mrs. Darling: [in intertitles] This is not the first time. Last week, I was drowsing here by the fire...

Mrs. Darling: [in intertitles] I felt a draught and looked up, and in the center of the room I saw that same little boy.

Mrs. Darling: [in intertitles] I screamed. Nana sprang at him. The boy leapt out of the window ~ and escaped...

Mrs. Darling: [in intertitles] ... but not before the window had closed and cut his shadow clean off.