by Ruth Wilkinson
(answers are now posted in the comment section)
Something completely different today. Can you identify who said each quote, and in what classic Christmas song, story, or show?
- “Happy Birthday!”
- “It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.”
- “And they’re hanging their stockings… Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s practically here!”
- “You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.”
- “ You know, fruit cake has the same properties as wood, including taste. You can keep a stove going for hours.”
- “Oh-oh. Somebody’s just made it. Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel’s just got his wings.”
- “I’m cute! I’m cute! She said I’m cute!”
- “I don’t like green Christmases. They’re not green—they’re just nasty faded browns and greys.”
- “Beaming faces everywhere, happiness is in the air, I’m telling you, it isn’t fair! I hate Christmas!”
- “Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!”
- “Well, sir, someday, I’d like to be a… a dentist.”
- “If you so much as lay a finger on the brim, I will never bring you another Christmas present as long as you live.”
- “Well, I hate to disagree with you, but not only IS there such a person, here I am to prove it.”
- “Will you buy my hair?”
- “Ask me who I was.”
- “Santie Claus, why? Why are you taking our Christmas tree? Why?”
- “Scotch pine delicious! But Douglas fir give me heartburn! (Burps) Excuse me!”
- “Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here.”
- “All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share.”
- “Christmas, Christmas time is near, Time for toys and time for cheer, We’ve been good, but we can’t last, Hurry Christmas, hurry fast.”
- “Ah. Yes. Blimey. Sorry! Christmas Eve on a rooftop. Saw a chimney, my whole brain just went “What the hell!””
- “The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Mr. Ryder… I will just put on my slippers before we settle this little matter of yours… You want to know what became of those geese?”
- “Look, Teddy. What’s Santa brought you?”
- “Folks, if you happen to get a goldfish for Christmas and the goldfish dies, you can flush it. But if you get a poinsettia and the poinsettia dies, don’t flush it, all right? Bad mistake.”
- “To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”
Bonus quote:
- “Christmas is a time for sharing. Christmas is a time for caring. If you believe in Christmas things, you’ll know the joy that Christmas brings.”