The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

June Foray: Ralph, Faintly Macabre, Princess of Pure Reason

Quotes 

• Princess of Pure Reason : Never feel badly about making mistakes, as long as you take the trouble to learn from them.

  Princess of Sweet Rhyme : Because often you learn more by being wrong for the right reasons...

  Princess of Pure Reason : -than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

• Milo : I've just come back from the most wonderful place in the world! And Ralph, guess what. I messed up the sunrise!

  Ralph : That's silly! How do you mess up a sunrise?

  Milo : Well, somebody has to conduct it. How else would you get the reds and the oranges and the yellows?

• Faintly Macabre : When Rhyme and Reason were banished...

  Milo : Rhyme? And Reason?

  Faintly Macabre : Yes Milo. When the two kings had their terrible quarrel. When King Azaz insisted that words were far more important than numbers, and hence his kingdom was truly the greater. And when the Mathemagician claimed that numbers were much more important than words, and hence his kingdom was supreme, why then naturally the asked the princess of Sweet Rhyme and the princess of Pure Reason to settle the question.

  Milo : And what did they decide? What is the most important - words or numbers?

  Faintly Macabre : The princesses decided that words and numbers are of equal value.

  Tock : In the cloak of knowledge, one is the warp, and the other is the 'Woof!'

  Faintly Macabre : But you see Milo, this decision infuriated the two kings. And they banished the princesses to the Castle in the Air. And I was thrown into this dungeon.

• Milo : You'd better be very careful, Ma'am. There's a witch around here somewhere.

  Faintly Macabre : Well of course there is. I am she. Faintly Macabre, the not-so-wicked Which. There, you see? "Official Which, Kingdom of Wisdom."

  Milo : Oh, a 'Which.' Like the Whether Man.

  Faintly Macabre : Of course! The Whether Man is my brother. At least he used to be. I don't know whether he still is, I haven't seen him in years.