How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Mary Poppins.
Quote #1
GEORGE: I feel a surge of deep satisfaction, much as a king astride his noble steed…When I return from daily strife, to hearth and wife, how pleasant is the life I lead!... 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! 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 adequately fed. And so I'll pat them on the head, and send them off to bed. Ah, lordly is the life I lead!
George acts like all is well in his world. He's a man in "the age of men" but, in reality, his assumptions are about to be shattered. Mary Poppins is going to demonstrate his own workaholic joylessness to him and make him chill, instead of being a rule-obsessed stiff.
Quote #2
GEORGE: A British bank is run with precision. A British home requires nothing less! Tradition, discipline, and rules must be the tools! Without them: disorder, catastrophe! Anarchy! In short, you have a ghastly mess!
George thinks you can run a home the same way you run a bank, with efficiency and discipline—but he's forgetting about love and the basics of being a dad.
Quote #3
WINIFRED: We're clearly soldiers in petticoats, and dauntless crusaders for women's a-votes! Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.
Winifred is an ardent suffragette—trying to find some equality between the sexes. Even though this is a good thing, the movie depicts Winifred as being so caught up in her social activism that she doesn't pay enough attention to Michael and Jane.