Mr. Banks: [singing] With tuppence for paper and strings, you can have your own set of wings! With your feet on the ground you're a bird in flight, with your fist holding tight to the string of your kite! Oh, oh, oh, let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height! Let's go fly a kite, and send it soaring! Up through the atmosphere, up where the air is clear! Oh, let's go... fly a kite!


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins

Mr. Banks: I feel a surge of deep satisfaction, much as a king astride his noble steed - thank you. When I return from daily strife, to hearth and wife... How pleasant is the life I lead!
Mrs. Banks: Dear, it's about the children...
Mr. Banks: Yes, yes, yes. I run my home precisely on schedule. At 6:01, I march through my door. My slippers, sherry, and pipe are due at 6:02. Consistent is the life I lead!
Mrs. Banks: George, they're missing!
Mr. Banks: Splendid, splendid. It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910! King Edward's on the throne, it's the age of men! I'm the lord of my castle, the sovereign, the liege! I treat my subjects, servants, children, wife with a firm but gentle hand, noblesse oblige. It's 6:03, and the heirs to my dominion are scrubbed and tubbed, and added, quickly fed. And so I'll pat them on the head, and send them off to bed. Ah, lordly is the life I lead! Winifred, where are the children?
Mrs. Banks: They're not here, dear.
Mr. Banks: What? Well, of course they're here! Where else would they be?


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins

Mr. Banks: You see, Michael, you'll be part of Railways through Africa
Mr. Dawes Sr.: Exactly.
Mr. Banks: Dams across the Nile
Mr. Dawes Sr.: The ships. Tell them about the ships.
Mr. Banks: Fleets of ocean Greyhounds.
Mr. Dawes Sr.: More, tell them more!
Mr. Banks: Majestic self-amortizing canals
Mr. Dawes Sr.: Oh, it fires the imagination!
Mr. Banks: [singing] Plantations of ripening tea all from
Mr. Banks, Mr. Dawes Sr., Mr. Dawes Jr, Mr. Tomes, Mr. Mousley, Mr. Grubbs: [singing] Tuppence prudently thriftily, frugally invested in the...
Mr. Dawes Sr.: To be specific
Mr. Banks, Mr. Dawes Sr., Mr. Dawes Jr, Mr. Tomes, Mr. Mousley, Mr. Grubbs: [singing] In the Dawes, Tomes, Mousley, Grubbs, Fidelity Fiduciary Bank.


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins

Mr. Dawes Sr.: [snatching Michael's tuppence away] Welcome to our joyful family of investors!


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins

Mr. Dawes Sr.: While stand the banks of England, England stands - whoa, whoa...!
[Mr. Dawes lurches forward, the others steady him]
Mr. Dawes Sr.: When fall the banks of England... ENGLAND FALLS!
[Mr. Dawes falls backward; the rest of the Board of Directors have to catch him]


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins

Quadrant: Bodelaire, I leave you with this one thought in mind: you pre-decease a very important person.


--David Tomlinson (as ) in The Liquidator

Skelton: I take no particular pride in it, but after four wives, I consider myself in a position to know something about boredom.


--David Tomlinson (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Mrs. Banks: As a matter of fact, since you hired Mary Poppins, the most extraordinary things seem to have come over the household.
Mr. Banks: Is that so?
Mrs. Banks: Take Ellen, for instance. She hasn't broken a dish all morning.
Mr. Banks: Really. Well, that is extraordinary.


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins

Mrs. Banks: But you're always saying that you wanted a cheerful and pleasant household.
Mr. Banks: Winifred, I should like to make a slight differentiation between the word cheerful and just plain giddy irresponsibility.


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins

Mrs. Banks: I'll try to do better next time.
Mr. Banks: Next time? My dear, you've engaged six nannies in the last four months. And they've all been unqualified disasters.


--David Tomlinson (as Mr. Banks) in Mary Poppins