237 The Lion King Quotes (2026) #5

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Timon: So where you from?
Young Simba: Who cares? I can't go back.
Timon: Ah, you're an outcast! That's great. So are we.

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Nala: What made you come back?
Adult Simba: I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it.

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Adult Simba: Tell them the truth.
Scar: Truth? But truth is in the eye of the behold...
Scar: [Simba chokes him, he whispers] All right. All right. I did it.
Adult Simba: So they can hear you.
Scar: I killed Mufasa!

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Banzai: Oh, Scar, it's just you.
Shenzi: We were afraid it was somebody important.
Banzai: Yeah, you know, like Mufasa.
Scar: I see.
Banzai: Now that's power.
Shenzi: Tell me about it. I just hear that name and I shudder.
Banzai: Mufasa!

Shenzi: Ooooh! Do it again!
Banzai: Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
Banzai: Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
[breaks into laughter]
Shenzi: And it tingles me!
Scar: I'm *surrounded* by idiots.

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Mufasa: [above the stampeding wildebeest] Scar! Broth-brother, help me!
Scar: [Scar puts his claws into Mufasa's paws] Long live the King.
[throws him into the stampede]
Mufasa: Aaaaah!
Young Simba: [as the Camera zooms out] Nooooooooo!

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Scar: This gorge is where all lions, come to find their roar.
Young Simba: All lions, even my Dad?
Scar: Even Mufasa came here when he was your age, refused to leave until his roar could be heard above the rim.
Young Simba: All the way up there?
Scar: That's when you know you've found

it, with a little practice you'll never be called a cub again.
Young Simba: Watch this.
[does a small roar]
Scar: You'll get it Simba, just takes time, I'll check on you later.
Young Simba: Dad will be so proud, huh?
Scar: It's a gift, he'll never forget.

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Timon: King... Simba?
Pumbaa: We kneel before you as loyal servants.

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Zazu: [caged while the battle rages around him] Let me out! Let me out!
Timon: [fleeing the hyenas] Lemme in! Lemme in!

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Pumbaa: Your Majesty. I gravel at your feet.
[starts kissing Simba's feet]
Adult Simba: Stop that.
Timon: It's not gravel, it's grovel.

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Young Simba: Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?
Shenzi: Like... you?
Young Simba: Oops.

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Nala: What's happened to you? You're not the Simba I remember.
Adult Simba: You're right, I'm not. Now are you satisfied?
Nala: No, just disappointed.
Adult Simba: You know you're starting to sound like my father.
Nala: Good. At least one of us does.

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Rafiki: What was *that*?
[laughs]
Rafiki: The weather - Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?
Adult Simba: Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
Rafiki: Ahhh. Change is good.

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Young Simba: Everything the light touches... What about that shadowy place?
Mufasa: That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.
Young Simba: But I thought a king can do whatever he wants.
Mufasa: There's more to being a king than getting your way all the time.
Young

Simba: There's more?
Mufasa: [laughing] Simba.

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[last lines]
Mufasa's ghost: [as Simba gazes into the night sky] Remember...

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Banzai: Yeah, be prepared! We'll be prepared... for what?
Scar: For the death of the king!
Banzai: Why? Is he sick?
Scar: No, fool, we're going to kill him. And Simba, too.
Shenzi: Hey, great idea! Who needs a king?
Banzai, Shenzi: [singing

and dancing around Ed] No king, no king, la la la la la la...
Scar: Idiots! There will *be* a king!
Banzai: Hey, but you said that...
Scar: *I* will be king. Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!
Banzai, Shenzi: Yeah, all right! Long live the king!
[other hyenas

join in]
Banzai, Shenzi: Long live the king! Long live the king!

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Mufasa: Don't turn your back on me, Scar!
Scar: Oh, no, Mufasa. Perhaps you shouldn't turn your back on me.
Mufasa: Is that a challenge?

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Kamari: [to Simba and Nala] Well look at this, we weren't expecting guests... today. Would you two cubs like to... stay for dinner?
Azizi: [butting in] Yeah stay for dinner, because you look like a midnight snack.
Kamari: [annoyed and irritated] Can you just give me a little bit of space.
Azizi: [backing up a

little] I'm helping.
Kamari: We've talked about this before- I come in alone I'm the lead distraction so everyone can circle.
Azizi: Okay, okay. I'm sorry.
Kamari: Don't be sorry, just do it!
Shenzi: Now this is a meal I've waited my whole life. What an unexpected treat to meet the son of a king.

Kamari: Wait a second the king, as in you know who.
Azizi: Who rules you know where.
Shenzi: Mufasa does not rule me.
Young Simba: You cant do anything to me, because I'm the future king.
Shenzi: [chuckles] he's telling me what to do, his father's strength flickering inside, I wonder

how all that bravery will taste.
Zazu: [suddenly appears] Let them go Shenzi. They made a mistake a horrible mistake, but if you do this, you will start a war with Mufasa.
Shenzi: Hyenas and Lions have been at war since the beginning of time. But Mufasa's bloodline WILL END HERE.
[lunges at Simba and Nala but they escape]

Shenzi: don't let them get away!

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Adult Simba: [in a huff] She's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyway? You can't change the past.
[calling to the sky]
Adult Simba: You said you'd always be there for me! But you're not. It's because of me. It's my fault. It's my fault.