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Lucy van Pelt Quotes

A little love and a little chocolate quote by Charles M. Schulz

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt!

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

Ugh! I’ve been kissed by a dog! I have dog germs! Get hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some Iodine!

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts. Lucy van Pelt, after hugging Snoopy.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

Try not to have a good time…This is supposed to be educational.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

If no one answers the phone, dial louder.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

Lucy van Pelt: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown?
Charlie: I don’t know, what is pantophobia?
Lucy van Pelt: The fear of Everything.
Charlie: THAT’S IT!!!

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: Schroeder, do you think I’m beautiful?
Schroeder: I think you’re the most beautiful girl the world has ever known.
Lucy van Pelt: You hate me, don’t you?

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: Hi! I just stopped by to thank you again for the mink stole you gave me for Christmas.
Schroeder: I did not give you a mink stole for Christmas!
Lucy van Pelt: I’LL SAY YOU DIDN’T!

– Charles M. Schulz

Schroeder: (to Lucy) I wouldn’t marry you unless you were the last girl on earth!
Lucy van Pelt: Did you say ‘if’ or ‘unless’?
Schroeder:I admit I said ‘unless’…
Lucy van Pelt: HOPE!!!

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: Can you take a little friendly criticism, Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: Why, of course. I’m not above that sort of thing at all; a little friendly criticism can always be helpful to a person. What is it you wanted to say?
Lucy van Pelt: You’re kind of stupid.

– Charles M. Schulz

Linus van Pelt: My teacher…understands me!
Lucy van Pelt: Either she’s a genius or she’s new on the job.

– Charles M. Schulz

Each generation must be able to blame the previous generation for its problems. It doesn’t solve anything, but it makes us all feel better.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

Lucy van Pelt: Look at this way Charlie Brown. These are your bitter days. These are your days of hardship and struggle. But if you’ll just hold your head up high and keep on fighting someday you’ll triumph!
Charlie Brown: Gee, do you really think so Lucy?
Lucy van Pelt: Frankly, no!

– Charles M. Schulz

Linus van Pelt: You’re always crabby! You’re crabby in the morning. You’re crabby at noon and you’re crabby at night!
Lucy van Pelt: Can I help it if I have crabby genes?

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: You can’t drift along forever…you have to direct your thinking. For instance you have to decide whether you’re going to be a liberal or a conservative. You have to take some sort of stand. You have to associate with some sort of cause.
Linus van Pelt: Are there any openings in the lunatic fringe?

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: You think this is a lot of rain? Rachel Carson says when the oceans were being formed, it rained day and night for centuries.
Linus van Pelt: It must have been very difficult to plan picnics!

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: I’m on a new campaign to be nice to people. (She sees Snoopy.) While I’m at it I suppose I might as well include dogs. (pat pat pat.) Here’s a nice pat on the head.
Snoopy: Thrillsville!

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: Why don’t you be a good little brother and go make me a jelly bread sandwich? If you don’t I’m going to leap on you and pound you right through the floor! So why don’t you make me that jelly-bread sandwich, huh? Please, dear brother?
Linus van Pelt: (heading off for the kitchen) When someone asks you that nicely, how can you refuse?

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: Schroeder, do you think a pretty girl is like a melody?
Schroeder: I can’t say…I’ve never known any pretty girls!
Lucy van Pelt: May your stupid piano be devoured by termites!

– Charles M. Schulz

Charlie Brown: I’m sorry that you have to wear glasses Linus.
Linus van Pelt: Don’t feel sorry for me…I can see things now that I never even knew existed before! Take Lucy for instance…for the first time I realize what a gorgeous creature she really is!
Lucy van Pelt: Glasses haven’t improved only his sight…they’ve also improved his sarcasm!

– Charles M. Schulz

Charlie Brown: Everything seems hopeless…I’m completely depressed.
Lucy van Pelt (in her psychiatry both): Go home. And eat a jelly-bread sandwich folded over. Five cents please. (Charlie Brown leaves. Lucy puts her feet up.) There are some cures you don’t learn in medical school.

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: You think being average is enough, don’t you? Well it isn’t! What shape would the world be in today if everyone settled for being average?
Linus van Pelt: What shape is the world in today?

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: Why do you think we’re put here on earth Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown: To make others happy.
Lucy van Pelt: I don’t think I’M making anyone very happy. Of course nobody’s making ME very happy either. SOMEBODY’S NOT DOING HIS JOB!

– Charles M. Schulz

I’m worried about a little boy who sits in front of me at school. He cries every day. This afternoon I tried to help him. I whacked him one on the arm…There’s nothing like a little physical pain to take your mind off emotional problems.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

Lucy van Pelt: Everywhere you go you seem to run into phonies! The people you think are sincere usually turn out not to be, and the people you think aren’t sincere usually turn out to be sincere! The question is, how do you tell the phonies from the realies?
Charlie Brown: Realies?

– Charles M. Schulz

[Lucy has being going around getting people to sign a document absolving her from all blame.]
Lucy van Pelt: Just sign it…that’s right…thank you. No matter what happens any place or any time in the world, this absolves me from all blame!
Charlie Brown: That must be a nice document to have.

– Charles M. Schulz

Merry Christmas you blockhead!

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

Schroder: Buying records cheers me up. Whenever I feel low I buy some new records. I was so depressed today I bought Mendelssohn’s violin concerto and Handel’s Ode for St Cecilia’s Day.
Lucy van Pelt: Wow! How depressed can you get!

– Charles M. Schulz

Lucy van Pelt: Did you ever stop to think what a drab world this would be without the sound of children’s voices?
Schroder: I can think of a few we could do without.
Lucy van Pelt: Someday I’m going to break all the legs on his piano!

– Charles M. Schulz

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