Willy Wonka

Character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory From: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Eccentric chocolate factory owner and main guide

431 quotes

"I have been working on the perfection of my craft for many years."
Work
"Invention, my dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration, six percent electricity, four percent evaporation, and two percent butterscotch ripple."
Creativity
"The river is all chocolate, my dear boy. The entire river."
Imagination
"Stop. Don't. Come back."
Courage
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Dreams
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Wisdom
"The strawberry water comes up through the pipes."
Imagination
"I have thousands of Oompa-Loompas working for me."
Leadership
"Don't you know what this is? It's a chocolate river."
Imagination
"My dear boy, we are the music makers."
Creativity
"Invention, my dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration."
Perseverance
"I'm afraid I really must insist on you getting off my property."
Courage
"Charlie, you're a good boy. I'm very proud of you."
Kindness
"The factory is yours, Charlie."
Hope
"I do hope you'll forgive me if I'm a little rusty."
"Up comes the Everlasting Gobstopper."
Imagination
"Slugworth would pay anything to get his hands on my secrets."
Wisdom
"The Oompa-Loompas are marvelous workers."
Leadership
"This boy will be perfectly alright."
Faith
"We have so much time and so little to do."
Time
"Lovely day, isn't it?"
Peace
"Punishment must be swift and sure."
Justice
"The most important thing is not what you have, but who you are."
"I have not been out of my factory in many years."
Solitude
"The world of pure imagination."
Imagination
"Come with me and you'll see a world of pure imagination."
Adventure
"Each of you will go through a different door."
"Do you know what happened to the last winner?"
"The boy deserves something special."
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men"
Wisdom