The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes
Humbug: A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
Movie: The Phantom Tollbooth
Officer Short Shrift: I should have known. It's you! Guilty of sowing confusion, upsetting an alphabet cart...
Milo: Apple cart.
Officer Short Shrift: Correcting an officer, wreaking havoc, mincing words, having a dog with an unauthorized alarm... [Tock barks at Short Shrift]
Officer Short Shrift: And illegal barking.
Milo: Apple cart.
Officer Short Shrift: Correcting an officer, wreaking havoc, mincing words, having a dog with an unauthorized alarm... [Tock barks at Short Shrift]
Officer Short Shrift: And illegal barking.
Movie: The Phantom Tollbooth
The MathemaGician: You couldn't have one fine day without the one, could you? You couldn't have tea for two without the two, could you? You couldn't have three blind mice without the three... so you see, numbers are the four, five, six, seven, eight wonders of the world!
Movie: The Phantom Tollbooth