Pied Piper: [speaking of the plague of rats] Leaders of virtue; character builders, / To rid your town of this verminous pox, / My fee is fifty thousand guilders.
First Counselor: Fifty thousand guilders?
Second Counselor: You've lost your mind!

- Stanley Adams in The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)

Pied Piper: As a rule / I refrain from calling any man a fool. Heed me now. / I'll wait until yon clock strikes the hour. / Don't let me go away / Without my pay.

- Van Johnson in The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)

Pied Piper: Maneuvers and manipulations!
Mayor of Hamelin: How dare you, sir! In all your dealings / To prevent your feelings / We require a legal form. / 'Tis no departure from the norm.

- Claude Rains in The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)

Mayor of Hamelin: What would you do with such a sum?
Pied Piper: Have fun!

- Van Johnson in The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)

Mayor of Hamelin: You have an invention?
Pied Piper: I attract attention/ Chiefly with a secret charm/ On creatures that do people harm;/ The mole, the toad, the newt and viper./
[Chuckles]
Pied Piper: Who doesn't know of the Pied Piper?

- Van Johnson in The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957)