Willy Wonka

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

Eccentric chocolate factory owner and main guide

431 quotes

"Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination."
Imagination
"I do not like spies in my factory."
Truth
"Every good factory must have rules."
Wisdom
"Imagination is more important than chocolate itself."
Imagination
"The factory runs on dreams and determination."
Success
"True wealth is not in gold but in imagination."
Wisdom
"The Oompa Loompas love to sing and work."
Happiness
"Inventions require passion and persistence."
Perseverance
"The taste of wonder is better than any sweet."
Beauty
"Nothing in this world is impossible to imagine."
Imagination
"The factory exists because I dared to dream differently."
Courage
"The world needs more wonder and less greed."
Wisdom
"Every invention begins with a question why."
Creativity
"A pure heart is worth more than all the chocolate in the world."
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Imagination
"If you have good thoughts, you will have good deeds and good deeds will make the world a better place."
Wisdom
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
Humor
"We must invade other people's dreams."
Dreams
"Don't you dare to take the fun out of it."
Humor
"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."
Creativity
"The river, you see, is all chocolate."
Imagination
"We have so much time and so little to do."
Time
"It happens to be made of glass, so I can see the children everywhere at once."
Knowledge
"All the Oompa-Loompas are given exactly the same wages."
Justice
"It would be quite impossible to make them by ordinary means."
Creativity
"Good gracious me! You don't mean to say you've never heard of the Oompa-Loompas?"
Knowledge
"The most important thing we've got is imagination."
Imagination
"Each day when you wake up, you have two choices."
"There must be something very special about this boy."
Hope
"Slugworth would give anything to get his hands on my recipes."