Jane Read quotes from Arthur

Excuse me, I'm on the phone.

Bad Arthur, bad boy!

Hold it, young lady, the snowball doesn't belonged in the house.

After I specifically told you not to. I'm disappointed in you, Arthur. Very disappointed.

Tell your father, "Merry Christmas."

Shoo, shoo, out of the house, back to the trees!

DW, no! DON'T TOUCH THE BOOK!

What can you see?

It was just blurry, Dr. Iris.

(puts in another lens.) Now what did you see?

A giant worm!

What?

Where?

Oh. (puts the small caterpillar on a potted plant and puts the lens back in the phoropter.) Is this better now?

Yeah, I could read it all!

You just need glasses, Arthur. And this is why you've been getting these headaches.

All you have to do is choose the frames you like.

[puts on aviator glasses] Cool! [briefly imagines himself standing in front of a jetfighter, tries on rectangular glasses] Hmm... Woo-hoo. (He tilts his head and his pupils roll along the rim of the glasses.)

These were nice.

Maybe I can try something else. [puts on futuristic glasses. He imagines he is standing on Mars. Behind him an alien wearing the same kind of glasses looks out of a UFO. They wave at each other, takes off the glasses and spots some round brown glasses.] Hey!

[reaches down for the glasses and puts them on Arthur] There.

These look wonderful, Arthur.

Very distinguished.

Really?

[has put his glasses on D.W.'s toy hammering bench and guides her hand with the hammer] That's it, D.W..

[giggling, hits with the hammer, but misses the glasses]

What are you doing with your glasses?

D.W. took them, Mom. I was just getting them back.

Well, be careful with these. You didn't need them to get broken.

No, Mom.

Ow!! [chuckles nervously]

Arthur...

Huh?!

Time to get ready for bed.

Arthur...

Don't worry, Dad. I'll work out all their schedules... somehow.

[screams as frogs hop around the bathtub] HELP!!!

D.W.?!

Uh-oh. Oh, no! The ant farm! No, Kate, don't! [Kate cries] Oh, no! Hey, wait! Hey! Where you going?! [steps on the cat's tail and the cat meows]

Huh?

Come here!

Arthur!

Arthur...

Arthur...

Arthur, my rug.

[Pal ripped rug] Uh-oh. Pal? Pal?

Forget calling him Puddles. How about Lake?

I'll clean it up, Mom.

[holding a pooper-scooper in one hand and Kate in the other] Then, you'll need this.

[holding a shovel] No, you'll need this!

Pal was in the living room too!

What on Earth?!

My catering schedules! [walks over]

[holding up a bar of soap covered in dog fur] What's this?! It's the soap from the bathroom!

You still think he's so smart?

Buster

He ate the whole living room?

He didn't eat it. Just chewed on it.

Buster

My puppy was so much trouble that my mother gave it away while I was at school.

Francine

Probably to a farm.

P.U.! What is this smell!'

(holding her nose) P.U.! It smells like a zoo in here!

(noticing a pressure in her stomach) D.W., close this. I have to make a pushy.

(holding her nose) Yuck! Mom, you smell worse than Kate..

(confused) huh?

(holding her nose) Ew! My doll has a stinky diaper!

D.W., where were you? We were all worried about you.

I'm here, Kate. Don't worry about it, I will show you how to do everything. This is what a big sister was for.