Nanny McPhee Quotes in Nanny McPhee (2005)

Nanny McPhee: There is something you should understand about the way I work. When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go. It's rather sad, really, but there it is.

[Nanny McPhee turns around to walk out of the room, but stops once she hears Simon]

Simon Brown: We will never want you!

Nanny McPhee: Then I will never go.

Nanny McPhee: How's the reading coming along?

Evangeline: Oh... all right. I still haven't gotten to the end of the story, though.

Nanny McPhee: There's no need. You are the end of the story.

Mr. Brown: Nanny McPhee! Now she can't take the donkey, so what have you done?

Nanny McPhee: I have done nothing, sir. The children have decided amongst themselves.

Mr. Brown: Decided what?

Great Aunt Adelaide: [off in distance] There you are, my dear.

Mr. Brown: Not little Chrissy.

[runs from the house]

Mr. Brown: Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide: [in the carriage] Now my dear, tell me your name.

Mr. Brown: [bolts down the road] Chrissy!

Nanny McPhee: Tell me your name.

Mr. Brown: [in the forest] Chrissy!

Great Aunt Adelaide: Sit up straight, and tell me your name.

Mr. Brown: [the carriage fades in the distance] NO! Christianna!

Christianna: Papa! Papa!

[races into her father's arms and hugs him]

Mr. Brown: Oh thank...

[the other children run up to him]

Mr. Brown: all of you? Oh... Then who is?

Evangeline: [raises head for Aunt Adelaide to see] Evangeline... My name is Evangeline.

[repeated line]

Nanny McPhee: I did knock.

Simon Brown: You must feel at such a disadvantage, Nanny McPhee.

Nanny McPhee: In what way?

Simon Brown: We know your name... but you don't know ours.

[holds out hand]

Simon Brown: Pleased to make your acquantence, I'm Oglinton Fartworthy.

[Children giggle whilst making farty noises]

Nanny McPhee: [Shakes Simon's hand] How d'you do.

Simon Brown: That's F-A-R-T, Fartworthy.

Tora: Booger McHorsefanny.

Lily: Knickers O'Muffin.

Eric Brown: Sandra.

Christianna: Bum.

Sebastian: I'm Bum!

Christianna: Oh, Bosoms.

[Children giggle out loud]

Baby Agatha: Bum.

Christianna: You can't be Bum, Aggie! Sebastian's Bum. You're Poop.

Baby Agatha: Poop Bum.

Sebastian: You can't be Poop and Bum!

[Repeated line]

Nanny McPhee: The person you need is Nanny McPhee.

Simon Brown: [Nanny McPhee appears only after he taps her wand into the ground, he nervously quotes her] I-I *did* knock...

Nanny McPhee: I know. I heard you.

Nanny McPhee: Please, Mr. Brown, go back to your newspaper.

[repeated line]

Nanny McPhee: Hmm...

Nanny McPhee: Not at all.

[repeated line given after making a sudden appearance]

Nanny McPhee: I did knock.

Nanny McPhee: [after using a winking donkey to rescue the children from their Great Aunt] One of you is going to have to go and it can't be the donkey.

Nanny McPhee: I am Nanny McPhee. Small C, Big P.

Nanny McPhee: Leave it to me.

Nanny McPhee: I hear you've been naughty.

Nanny McPhee: These children need me.