Questing for Elf quotes?
The Elf movie, a Christmas comedy film starring Will Ferrell, is a long-time favorite with kids and adults.
It’s full of many memorable lines to make you – and your friends and followers – laugh!
We’ll kick off with a few of the funniest, then group them by:
- Elf quotes about Christmas and Christmas spirit.
- Sayings about Santa, and from Santa himself (played by Ed Asner).
- Elf quotes about singing, syrup, and sugar.
- And many more!
Sample the sweetness now.
Funny Elf Movie Quotes
Below are some of the favorite, and funniest, quotes from the movie Elf!
The movie was released in 2003 and written by David Berenbaum – but Will Ferrell did improvise many scenes and lines.
I am a cotton-headed ninny muggins!
~ Buddy
Son of a nutcracker!
~ Buddy
I just like to smile. Smiling’s my favorite.
~ Buddy
Does somebody need a hug?
~ Buddy
You sit on a throne of lies!
~ Buddy
Buddy the Elf, what’s your favorite color?
~ Buddy answering the phone
Have you seen these toilets? They’re ginormous!
~ Buddy
So, good news… I saw a dog today.
~ Buddy
I’m sorry I ruined your lives and crammed 11 cookies into the VCR.
~ Buddy
Francisco! That’s fun to say! Francisco… Frannncisco… Franciscooo…
~ Buddy
That’s a very nice purple dress. It’s very purpley.
~ Buddy
Elf Quotes About Christmas
Spread Christmas spirit with these fun sayings. Or commiserate with someone scrambling to get through it!
Christmas spirit is about believing, not seeing.
~ Santa
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
~ Buddy
What’s a Christmas Gram? I want one!
~ Buddy
You have such a pretty face. You should be on a Christmas card.
~ Buddy
And where do the reindeer get their magic from? Christmas Spirit. Everybody knows that.
~ Papa Elf
I’m just trying to get through the holidays.
~ Jovie
You can find many more joyful Christmas quotes here!
Elf Quotes About Santa
Of course Buddy adores Santa. Santa must be the best employer ever!
Will Ferrell imagined Buddy’s excitement to see a familiar face in New York and came up with a memorable scene.
Plus more quotes about Santa!
SANTA! Oh my God! Santa, here?! I know him! I know him!
~ Buddy
What about Santa’s cookies? I suppose parents eat those, too?
~ Buddy
Call me on my radio, channel three. Code word is: “Santa’s got a brand new bag.”
~ Elf movie
There’s room for everyone on the Nice List!
~ Buddy
You stink! You smell like beef and cheese, you don’t smell like Santa.
~ Buddy
Santa! I know him!
~ Buddy
Charlotte Dennon wants a Tiffany engagement ring and for her boyfriend… to commit already.
~ Elf movie
Santa is in Manhattan!
~ Elf movie
Santa, why are they chasing us?
~ Buddy
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Quotes from Santa in Elf Movie
Memorable lines from Ed Asner as Santa.
Listen, some people, they just lose sight of what’s important in life. That doesn’t mean they can’t find their way again, huh? Maybe all they need is just a little Christmas spirit.
~ Santa
Well, there are some things you should know. First off, if you see gum on the street, leave it there. It’s not candy.
~ Santa
That’s another thing… Buddy, you should know that your father… he’s on the naughty list.
~ Santa
You believed in me. You made my sleigh fly!
~ Santa
And if you see a sign that says “Peep Show,” it doesn’t mean that they’re letting you look at presents before Christmas.
~ Santa
Christmas spirit is about believing, not seeing. If the whole world saw me, all would be lost. The paparazzi have been trying to nail me for years.
~ Santa
I’ve been to New York thousands of times.
~ Santa
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Elf Quotes from the Candy Cane Forest
The Candy Cane Forest is a whimsical land Buddy must traverse to find his dad.
Hey Buddy, wanna pick some snowberries?
~ Puffin
Not now, Arctic Puffin!
~ Buddy
Bye Buddy, hope you find your dad!
~ Mr. Narwhal
Then I traveled through the seven levels of the Candy Cane Forest, past the sea of twirly-swirly gumdrops, and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.
~ Buddy
Of course you’re not [an elf]. You’re six-foot-three and had a beard since you were fifteen.
~ Leon the Snowman
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Elf Quotes About Singing
These quotes might just inspire you to start singing!
I’m singing! I’m in a store and I’m singing!
~ Buddy
If you can sing alone, you sing in front of other people. There’s no difference.
~ Buddy
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
~ Buddy
Sounds like somebody needs to sing a Christmas carol.
~ Buddy
I heard you singing.
~ Buddy
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Elf Quotes About Love
Buddy is so sweet and childlike in his love for Jovie, and his fellow man too! Here are some fun quotes to celebrate that innocent love.
I’m in love, I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it.
~ Buddy
To the man on elevator. Oh, I forgot to give you a hug.
~ Buddy
I think you’re really beautiful and I feel really warm when I’m around you and my tongue swells up. So… do you want to eat food?
~ Buddy
I love you! I love you! I LOVE YOU!
~ Buddy
I thought maybe we could make gingerbread houses, and eat cookie dough, and go ice skating, and maybe even hold hands.
~ Buddy
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Elf Quotes About Syrup and Sugar
Buddy the Elf has some odd eating habits. Celebrate them with these sayings!
We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.
~ Buddy
I love syrup. Oh, love it.
~ Buddy
You like sugar, huh?
~ Emily
Is there sugar in syrup?
~ Buddy
Reach out in front of you and take a sip. Don’t look.
~ Buddy
I planned out our whole day. First, we make snow angels for two hours, and then we’ll go ice skating, and then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie Dough as fast as we can, and then to finish, we’ll snuggle.
~ Buddy
You did it! Congratulations! ‘World’s Best Cup of Coffee.’ Great job, everybody. It’s great to meet you.
~ Buddy
Reach out in front of you and take a sip. Don’t look.
~ Buddy
No, it’s the world’s BEST cup of coffee.
~ Buddy
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Quotes About Elves from Elf
No surprise: Elf movie has much to say about elves.
He’s an angry elf.
~ Buddy
He must be a South Pole elf.
~ Buddy
Oh, it’s not a costume. I’m an elf. Well, technically, I’m a human, but I was raised by elves.
~ Buddy
As you can imagine, it’s, uh, dangerous having an oven in an oak tree during the dry season.
~ Papa Elf
It’s just nice to meet another human who shares my affinity for elf culture.
~ Buddy
Why don’t you just say it? I’m the worst toy maker in the world.
~ Buddy
It seems I’m not an elf.
~ Buddy
I… I’m not an elf, Santa. I can’t do anything right.
~ Buddy
This place reminds me of Santa’s Workshop. Except it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me.
~ Buddy
Some call it ‘the show’ or ‘the big dance;’ it’s the profession that every elf aspires to—and that is to build toys in Santa’s workshop.
~ Elf movie
Especially when we build toys!
~ Buddy
We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.
~ Buddy
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More Elf Movie Quotes
Yes, there are yet more hilarious quotes from this fun movie!
I painted a picture of a butterfly!
~ Buddy
What’s more vulnerable than a peach?
~ Morris
SAAANTA!! OHMYGOD!!
~ Buddy
Oh, you just made my day!
~ Deb
Tickle fight! Tickle fight!
~ Buddy
Uh, you look like you came from the North Pole.
~ Walter Hobbs
Great! I got a full 40 minutes!
~ Buddy
Finger prick?! Can I listen to your necklace?
~ Buddy
Do you remember me?
~ Buddy
My finger has a heartbeat.
~ Buddy
Why are you smiling like that?
~ Gimbel’s Manager
Very generous of you. Mm…
~ Buddy
I like to whisper too.
~ Buddy
I didn’t know you were naked.
~ Buddy
Call me elf one more time!
~ Miles
Oooh looks like a Christmas tree!
~ Buddy
Oh, by the way, don’t eat the yellow snow.
~ Buddy
We can’t just throw him out in the snow.
~ Emily
Why not? He loves the snow. He’s told me fifteen times.
~ Walter
Who sent this Christmas Gram?
~ Walter
Um, Happy Birthday of course.
~ Gimbel’s Santa
I have houses in LA, Paris, and Vail; each one of them with a 70 inch plasma screen.
~ Miles
There’s a horrible noise coming from the evil box underneath the window.
~ Elf movie
You’re a fake.
~ Buddy
You disgust me! How can you live with yourself?
~ Buddy
How’d you like to be dead, huh? Ho, ho just kidding.
~ Gimbel’s Santa
What about this: a tribe of asparagus children, but they’re self-conscious about the way their pee smells.
~ Eugene
Actually, there’s a BIG difference.
~ Jovie
Are you sure it had nothing to do with the fact that I was naked in the shower?
~ Jovie
It’s alright, Buddy. Just how many Etch-A-Sketches did you get finished?
~ Ming Ming
And no farms. Everyone’s pushing small-town rural. A farm book would just be white noise.
~ Miles
No tomatoes. Too vulnerable. Kids, they’re already vulnerable.
~ Miles
Hobbs, Hobbs, Hobbs! If you walk out here, and you’re finished at Greenway! You’re finished!
~ Fulton
I appreciate it, Buddy is killing me. I’ve already got Lum Lum and Choo Choo pulling doubles.
~ Ming Ming
These forces are highly trained, but rarely see action. Some have accused them of being too gung-ho when called into duty. And their crowd control tactics at the Simon and Garfunkel concert in ‘85 were much too criticized.
~ Reporter
What do you want? Some money?
~ Walter
Elf-tastic Quotes!
I hope you loved these quotes. Which is your fave? Or know one to add? Leave a comment!
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