CORPSE BRIDE -- QUOTES
Victor Van Dort: Tomorrow, Victoria, we are to be...
[struggles to say "married"]
Victor Van Dort: Mmmm... mmmm... mmmm...
Victoria Everglot: [small giggle] ... married.
The Corpse Bride: Darling... where are you going?
Victor Van Dort: *Home*!
Barkis Bittern: Can a heart still break after it's stopped beating?
Finnis Everglot: There's an eye in me soup.
Maudeline Everglot: What manner of impropriety is this? You shouldn't be *alone* together!
The Corpse Bride: Isn't the view beautiful? It takes my breath away. Well, it would if I had any.
Victoria Everglot: What if Victor and I don't like each other?
Maudeline Everglot: Hmpf! As if that has anything to do with marriage. Do
you suppose your father and I "like" each other?
Victoria Everglot: Surely you must, a little.
Maudeline Everglot & Finnis Everglot: Of course not!
Finnis Everglot: If ever I see that Van Dort boy, I'll strangle him with
my bare hands!
Maudeline Everglot: Your hands are too fat, and his neck is too thin.
You'll have to use a rope.
Barkis Bittern: Would you care to repeat tonight's headline for us?
Town Crier: [shouting so loud that the teacups rattle] Hear ye,
hear ye! Victor Van Dort seen this night on the bridge in the arms of a mystery
woman! The dark-haired temptress and Master Van Dort slipped away into the
night!
[lowers voice]
Town Crier: And now the weather. Scattered showers...
Barkis Bittern: Enough! That will be all.
Victor Van Dort: I've got a... dwarf, and I'm not afraid to use him!
Town Crier: In other news... *the dead walk the earth*!
[the Corpse Bride recognizes Lord Barkis]
The Corpse Bride: You!
Barkis Bittern: Emily? But I left you.
The Corpse Bride: For dead!
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.
Maggot: [after Lord Barkis drinks potion] Not any more!
Elder Gutknecht: Yep. You're right. He's all yours.
Maggot: If I hadn't just been sitting in it, I would say that you'd lost your mind!
Barkis Bittern: [disrupting the wedding] Oh, how touching. I
always cry at weddings. Finally, our two young lovers are together at last.
Surely now they can live happily ever after? But you forget...
Barkis Bittern: [snatches Victoria] She's still my wife! And I'm
not leaving here empty handed!
Elder Gutknecht: Just remember, when you want to come back, say "Hopscotch."
Pastor Galswells: Miss Everglot, what are you doing here? You should be at home, prostrate with grief.
The Corpse Bride: [about Victor's dead dog, Scraps] What a cutie.
Victor Van Dort: You should have seen him with fur.
Elder Gutknecht: Why go up there when people are dying to get down here?
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 of 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 feels I still have some tears to shed.
Finnis Everglot: Fetch me musket!
Emil: Lord and Lady Everglot, Mr. and Mrs. Van Dort.
William Van Dort: [to Maudeline] Ah... you must be Miss Victoria,
I must say you don't look a day over 20.
Victor Van Dort: I want some questions!
General Bonesapart: Answers... I think you mean answers.
