• Wizard of Oz Quotes

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  Auntie Em: Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!
  
  

  Miss Gulch: [stopping bicycle and getting off] Gale?

  Uncle Henry Gale: Well, howdy, Miss Gulch.

  Miss Gulch: [comes into the Gales' yard] I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy!

  Uncle Henry Gale: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?

  Miss Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!

  Uncle Henry Gale: Oh! You mean she bit you?

  Miss Gulch: No, her dog!

  Uncle Henry Gale: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?

  [Uncle Henry tries to shut the gate, but it hits her on the backside]

  Miss Gulch: [exasperated] No!
  
  

  
  
  

  Dorothy: It really was no miracle. What happened was just this...

  Dorothy: [singing] The wind began to switch / The house, to pitch / And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch / Just then the Witch / To satisfy an itch / Went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch!

  Munchkin: And, oh, what happened then was rich!

  Munchkins: [singing] The house began to pitch / The kitchen took a slich / It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch / Which was not a happy situation for the Wicked Witch!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Now which way do we go?

  Scarecrow: Pardon me, this way is a very nice way.

  Dorothy: Who said that?

  [Toto barks at scarecrow]

  Dorothy: Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.

  Scarecrow: [points other way] It's pleasant down that way, too.

  Dorothy: That's funny. Wasn't he pointing the other way?

  Scarecrow: [points both ways] Of course, some people do go both ways.

  
  
  

  Zeke: [to pigs] Get in there, before I make a dime bank out of you.

  
  
  

  Professor Marvel: Better get under cover, Sylvester. There's a storm blowin' up - a whopper, to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry. Poor little kid, I hope she gets home all right.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: [noticing the snow that fallen on the poppy field] Unusual weather we're having, ain't it?

  
  
  

  Auntie Em Gale: Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Oh please, Professor, why can't we go with you and see all the Crowned Heads of Europe?

  Professor Marvel: Do you know any? Oh, you mean the... thing. Yes.

  
  
  

  Professor Marvel: Professor Marvel never guesses, he knows!

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: Come along, Dorothy. You don't want any of *those* apples.

  Apple Tree: Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?

  Scarecrow: Oh, no. It's just that she doesn't like little green worms!

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do.

  Tin Woodsman, Scarecrow: What's that?

  Cowardly Lion: Talk me out of it!

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?

  Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman: Courage!

  Cowardly Lion: You can say that again! Huh?

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I *do* believe in spooks, I *do* believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I *do*!

  Wicked Witch of the West: Ah! You'll believe in more than that before I'm finished with you.

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: The last to go will see the first three go before her. And her little dog too.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Weren't you frightened?

  Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Do you suppose we'll meet any wild animals?

  Tin Woodsman: Mm, we might.

  Scarecrow: Animals that eat... s-traw?

  Tin Woodsman: Some, but mostly lions, and tigers, and bears.

  Dorothy: Lions?

  Scarecrow: And tigers?

  Tin Woodsman: And bears.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: Put 'em up, put 'em up! Which one of you first? I'll fight you both together if you want. I'll fight you with one paw tied behind my back. I'll fight you standing on one foot. I'll fight you with my eyes closed... ohh, pullin' an axe on me, eh? Sneaking up on me, eh? Why, I'll... Ruff!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Your Majesty, if you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anything?

  Cowardly Lion: Not nobody! Not nohow!

  Tin Woodsman: Not even a rhinoceros?

  Cowardly Lion: Imposerous!

  Dorothy: How about a hippopotamus?

  Cowardly Lion: Why, I'd thrash him from top to bottomus!

  Dorothy: Supposing you met an elephant?

  Cowardly Lion: I'd wrap him up in cellophane!

  Scarecrow: What if it were a brontosaurus?

  Cowardly Lion: I'd show him who was king of the forest!

  
  
  

  Mayor of Munchkin City: Then this is a day of independence for all the Munchkins and their descendants!

  Munchkin: If any!

  Mayor of Munchkin City: Yes - let the joyous news be spread! The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead!

  
  
  

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Who rang that bell?

  Dorothy, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tin Woodsman: [all four together] We did!

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Can't you read?

  Scarecrow: Read what?

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: The notice!

  Dorothy: What notice?

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: It's on the door - as plain as the nose on my face! It... oh...

  [does a "tisk tisk tisk" expression, goes inside door for a moment]

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: [Guardian hangs the notice and goes back inside]

  Dorothy, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tin Woodsman: [Reading notice, all together] Bell out of order, please knock.

  [Dorothy knocks]

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Well, that's more like it! Now, state your business!

  Dorothy: [Dorothy and friends, all together] We want to see the Wizard!

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: [gasps] The Wizard? But nobody can see the Great Oz! Nobody's ever seen the Great Oz! Even I've never seen him!

  Dorothy: Well, then how do you know there is one?

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Oh, you're wasting my time!

  [starts to close the window]

  Dorothy: Oh, please! Please, sir! I've got to see the Wizard! The Good Witch of the North sent me!

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Prove it!

  Scarecrow: She's wearing the ruby slippers she gave her.

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Oh, so she is! Well, bust my buttons! Why didn't you say that in the first place? That's a horse of a different color! Come on in!

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: What about the heart that you promised Tin Man? Or the courage you promised Lion?

  Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion: And Scarecrow's brain?

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you're confusing courage with wisdom.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: I- I- I hope my strength holds out.

  Tin Woodsman: [hanging by Lion's tail] I hope your tail holds out!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!

  Cowardly Lion: [crying] You're right, I am a coward! I haven't any courage at all. I even scare myself.

  [sobs]

  Cowardly Lion: Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven't slept in weeks!

  Tin Woodsman: Why don't you try counting sheep?

  Cowardly Lion: That doesn't do any good, I'm afraid of 'em.

  [sobs loud]

  Scarecrow: Aw, that's too bad.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Oz. I said come back tomorrow.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: [speaking in a booming voice into microphone] I am the great and powerful...

  [then, realizing that it is useless to continue his masquerade, moves away from microphone, speaks in a normal voice]

  Wizard of Oz: ... Wizard of Oz.

  
  
  

  Zeke: Listen, kid. Are you gonna try and let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo ya'? She ain't nothing to be afraid of. Have a little courage, that's all.

  Dorothy: I'm not afraid of her.

  Zeke: Well then, next time she squawks, walk right up to her and spit in her eye. That's what I'd do.

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of spears! Thought you were pretty foxy, didn't you? Well! The last to go will see the first three go before her! And your mangy little dog, too!

  
  
  

  [the Cowardly Lion has just received a Courage Medal from the Wizard of Oz]

  Cowardly Lion: Shucks, folks, I'm speechless. Ha Ha!

  
  
  

  Coroner: [singing] As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Did you say something?

  Tin Woodsman: [indiscernible sounds from the Tin Man, who is rusted]

  Dorothy: He said oil can!

  Scarecrow: Oil can what?

  Dorothy: Oil can.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Where do you want to be oiled first?

  
  
  

  Auntie Em: Help us out today and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble!

  Dorothy: A place where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain...

  [begins to sing "Over the Rainbow"]

  
  
  

  Dorothy: [has just arrived in Oz, looking around and awed at the beauty and splendor] Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.

  Dorothy: [after a pause] We must be over the rainbow!

  [a bubble appears in the sky and gets closer and closer. It finally lands, then turns into Glinda the Good Witch wearing a spectacular white dress and crown, holding a wand]

  Dorothy: [to Toto] Now I... I know we're not in Kansas!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: My! People come and go so quickly here!

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: I'll get you anyway, Pee-wee.

  [Chases Toto; Dorothy hits him on the nose]

  Dorothy: Shame on you!

  Cowardly Lion: [Sobbing] Why did you do that for? I didn't bite him.

  Dorothy: No, but you tried to. It's bad enough picking on a straw man, but picking on a little dog.

  Cowardly Lion: Well, you didn't have to go and hit me! Is my nose bleeding?

  Dorothy: Of course not.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: [singing] If I were king of the fore-e-e-est / Not queen, not duke, not prince / My regal robes of the fore-e-e-est / Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz / I'd command each thing, whether fish or fowl / With a r-r-ruff and a r-r-ruff, and a royal growl - R-R-Ruff! / As I click my heels / All the trees would kneel / And the mountains bow / And the bulls kowtow / And the sparrow would take wing / If I, if I were ki-i-i-i-ng! / The rabbits would show respect to me / The chipmunks genuflect to me / Though my tail would lash / I would show compash / For every underling / If I, if I were king / Just ki-i-i-i-ing!

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw.

  Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?

  Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?

  Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

  
  
  

  Tin Woodsman: Here, here. Go away and let us alone.

  Cowardly Lion: Oh, scared, huh? Afraid, huh? Ah, how long can you stay fresh in that can? Ha ha ha ha.

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: First they

  [the Flying Monkeys]

  Scarecrow: took my legs off and they threw them over there! Then they took my chest out and they threw it over there!

  Tin Woodsman: Well, that's you all over!

  
  
  

  [Dorothy watches the Wicked Witch melt]

  Wicked Witch of the West: You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I'm going! Oooooh! Ooooooh!

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  Tin Woodsman: But I still want one.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy! Rapture! I got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?

  Wizard of Oz: You can't.

  
  
  

  Tin Woodsman: What have you learned, Dorothy?

  Dorothy: Well, I - I think that it - it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em - and it's that - if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?

  
  
  

  [last lines]

  Dorothy: Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home. Home! And this is my room, and you're all here. And I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all, and - oh, Auntie Em - there's no place like home!

  
  
  

  [Dorothy is brought to the Witch's castle]

  Wicked Witch of the West: What a nice little dog. And you, my dear, what an unexpected pleasure. It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness.

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: Who killed my sister? Who killed the Witch of the East? Was it you?

  Dorothy: No, no. It was an accident. I didn't mean to kill anybody.

  Wicked Witch of the West: Well, my little pretty, I can cause accidents, too!

  
  
  

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Orders are nobody can see the Great Oz! Not nobody, not nohow!

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now.

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: Witch? Hmph, I'm not afraid of a witch. I'm not afraid of anything - except a lighted match.

  [points to the straw in his arm]

  Dorothy: I don't blame you for that.

  
  
  

  Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: You have no power here! Begone, before somebody drops a house on you, too!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Oh, Thank you so much! We've been gone such a long time and we feel so messy... What kind of a horse is that? I've never seen a horse like that before!

  Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: And never will again, I fancy. There's only one of him and he's it. He's the Horse of a Different Color, you've heard tell about.

  
  
  

  Manicurist in Emerald City: We can make a dimpled smile out of a frown.

  Dorothy: Can you even dye my eyes to match my gown?

  Manicurist in Emerald City: Uh-huh.

  Dorothy: Jolly old town!

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: [singing] I'm afraid there's no denyin' / I'm just a dandy-lion / A fate I don't deserve / I'm sure I could show my prowess / Be a lion, not a mouse / If I only had the nerve.

  
  
  

  Ozmites: [singing] We get up at 12 and start to work at 1! Take an hour for lunch and then, at 2, we're done! Jolly good fun!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: What would you do with a brain if you had one?

  
  
  

  [Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man watch as the Wicked Witch of the West vanishes into a fireball]

  Scarecrow: I'm not afraid of her! I'll see you get safely to the Wizard now, whether I get a brain or not. Stuff a mattress with me. Ha!

  Tin Woodsman: I'll see you reach the Wizard, whether I get a heart or not. Beehive, bah! Let her try and make a beehive out of me!

  [snaps]

  Dorothy: Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had. And it's funny, but I feel as if I'd known you all the time, but I couldn't have, could I?

  Scarecrow: I don't see how. You weren't around when I was stuffed and sewn together, were you?

  Tin Woodsman: And I was standing over there, rusting for the longest time.

  Dorothy: Still, I wish I could remember, but I guess it doesn't matter anyway. We know each other now, don't we?

  Scarecrow: That's right.

  Tin Woodsman: We do.

  Scarecrow: To Oz?

  Tin Woodsman: To Oz.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: Goodbye, Tinman. Oh, don't cry! You'll rust so dreadfully. Here's your oil can.

  Tin Woodsman: Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking...

  Dorothy: Goodbye, Lion. I know it isn't right, but I'm going to miss the way you used to hollar for help before you found your courage.

  Cowardly Lion: I never would've found it if it hadn't been for you...

  Dorothy: [to Scarecrow] I think I'm going to miss you most of all.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: You go away or I - I'll bite you myself!

  Auntie Em: Dorothy!

  
  
  

  Hunk: Now look here, Dorothy, you ain't using your head about Miss Gulch. You'd think you didn't have any brains at all.

  Dorothy: I have so got brains.

  Hunk: Well, why don't you use them? When you come home, don't go by Miss Gulch's place. Then Toto won't get in her garden, and you won't get in no trouble. See?

  Dorothy: Oh Hunk, you just won't listen, that's all.

  Hunk: Well, your head ain't made of straw, you know.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: [to the Scarecrow] I think I'll miss you most of all.

  
  
  

  Auntie Em: I saw you tinkering with that contraption, Hickory. Now you and Hunk get back to that wagon.

  Hickory: All right, Mrs. Gale. But someday, they're going to erect a statue to me in this town, and...

  Auntie Em: Don't start posing for it now.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: Come on, get up and fight, you shivering junkyard!

  [goes over to the Scarecrow]

  Cowardly Lion: And put your hands up, you lopsided bag of hay!

  Scarecrow: Now that's getting personal, Lion.

  Tin Woodsman: Yes. Get up and teach him a lesson.

  Scarecrow: Well, what's wrong with you teaching him?

  Tin Woodsman: Well, I hardly know him.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: Come on, get up and fight, ya shivering junkyard! Put your hands up, ya lopsided bag o' hay!

  Scarecrow: Now that's getting personal, Lion!

  Tin Woodsman: Yes. Get up and teach him a lesson.

  Scarecrow: W-w-what's wrong with y-y-you teaching him?

  Tin Woodsman: W-w-well, I hardly know him.

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: [getting a panic attack walking into the Wizard's foyer] Wait a minute, Fellows. I was just thinking. I really don't want to see the Wizard this much. I'd better wait for you outside.

  Scarecrow: What's the matter?

  Tin Woodsman: Oh, he's just a scared again.

  Dorothy: Don't you know the Wizard's going to give you some courage?

  Cowardly Lion: I'd be too scared to ask him for it.

  [sobs]

  Dorothy: Well then, we'll ask him for you.

  Cowardly Lion: I'd sooner wait outside.

  Dorothy: Why? Why?

  Cowardly Lion: Because I'm still scared.

  [sobs]

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: Helping the little lady along are you, my fine gentlemen? Well stay away from her, or I'll stuff a mattress with you! And you, I'll make you into a beehive. Here Scarecrow, want to play ball?

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified.

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: [singing] I could while away the hours/conferrin' with the flowers/consultin' with the rain/And my head I'd be scratchin'/ While my thoughts were busy hatchin'/If I only had a brain.

  
  
  

  Tin Woodsman: I can barely hear my heart beating!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: [Reaches to pick an apple from the apple tree, the tree grabs the apple and slaps her hand] Ouch!

  Apple Tree: What'd'ya think you're doing?

  Dorothy: We've been walking a long ways and I was hungry and... did you say something?

  Apple Tree: She was hungry! Well, how would you like to have someone come along and pick something off of you?

  Dorothy: Oh dear! I keep forgetting I'm not in Kansas!

  Scarecrow: Come along Dorothy. You don't want any of those apples!

  
  
  

  Uncle Henry Gale: Come on, everybody to the storm cellar!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: [as the Wizard's balloon goes off without her] Come back! Come back! Don't go without me! Please come back!

  Wizard of Oz: I can't come back, I don't know how it works! Good-bye, folks!

  
  
  

  Scarecrow: I've got a way to get us in there, and you're gonna lead us.

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: How about a little fire, Scarecrow?

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: [singing] I'd be brave as a blizzard...

  Tin Woodsman: [singing] I'd be gentle as a lizard...

  Scarecrow: [singing] I'd be clever as a gizzard...

  Dorothy: [singing] If the Wizard is a wizard who will serve.

  Scarecrow: [singing] Then I'm sure to get a brain...

  Tin Woodsman: [singing] A heart...

  Dorothy: [singing] A home...

  Cowardly Lion: [singing] The nerve!

  
  
  

  Cowardly Lion: Read what my medal says: "Courage". Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?

  
  
  

  Tin Woodsman: Help! Help!

  Scarecrow: It's no use screaming at a time like this. Nobody will hear you. Help! Help!

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: They have one thing you haven't got: a diploma. Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of ThD.

  Scarecrow: ThD?

  Wizard of Oz: That's... Doctor of Thinkology.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: Back where I come from there are men who do nothing all day but good deeds. They are called phila... er, phila... er, yes, er, Good Deed Doers.

  
  
  

  Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?

  Dorothy: I'm not a witch at all. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas.

  Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: Oh. Well, is that the witch?

  Dorothy: Who, Toto? Toto's my dog!

  
  
  

  Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: Ooh! What a smell of sulfur.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: To confer, converse, and otherwise hob-nob with my brother wizards.

  
  
  

  Dorothy: I've got a witch mad at me and you might get into trouble!

  
  
  

  Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: Only bad witches are ugly.

  
  
  

  [first lines]

  Dorothy: She isn't coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt you? She tried to, didn't she? Come on. We'll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em.

  
  
  

  Zeke: It's a twister! It's a twister!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: [singing] Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Bluebirds fly. Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why cant I?

  
  
  

  The Winkies: [singing repeatedly] O-Ee-Yah! Eoh-Ah!

  
  
  

  Wicked Witch of the West: And now, my beauties, something with poison in it, I think. With poison in it, but attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell.

  [cackles]

  Wicked Witch of the West: Poppies... Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleeeeep. Now they'll sleeeeep!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: I'm frightened, Auntie Em! I'm frightened!

  [Auntie Em's image appears in the crystal ball]

  Auntie Em: Dorothy? Dorothy? Where are you? It's me, Auntie Em! We're trying to find you! Where are you?

  Dorothy: I'm here in Oz, Auntie Em! I'm locked in the witch's castle, and I'm trying to get home to you, Auntie Em!

  [Auntie Em's image fades out]

  Dorothy: Oh, Auntie Em, don't go away! I'm frightened! Come back! Come back!

  [the Wicked Witch's image appears in the crystal ball]

  Wicked Witch of the West: Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Come back! I'll give you Auntie Em, my pretty! Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh!

  [to the audience]

  Wicked Witch of the West: Heh heh heh heh heh heh!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: [in the Wizard's Throne Room with the three others, having returned from the Witch's castle] Please, sir. We've done what you told us. We brought you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her!

  Wizard of Oz: Oh, you liquidated her, eh? Very resourceful!

  
  
  

  Captain of the Winkie Guard: [after the Wicked Witch has melted] She's... She's dead. You killed her.

  Dorothy: I didn't mean to kill her. Really, I didn't. It's just that he was on fire.

  Captain of the Winkie Guard: Hail to Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead!

  The Winkies: [all kneel before Dorothy] *Hail*! Hail to Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead!

  Dorothy: The broom! May we have it?

  Captain of the Winkie Guard: [hands Dorothy the broomstick] Please. And take it with you.

  Dorothy: Oh, thank you so much! Now we can go back to the Wizard, and tell him the Wicked Witch is dead!

  The Winkies: The Wicked Witch is dead!

  
  
  

  Miss Gulch: If you don't hand over that dog, I'll bring a damage suit that'll take your whole farm! There's a law protecting folks against dogs that bite!

  Auntie Em: How would it be if she keeps him tied up? He's really gentle... with gentle people, that is.

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: [in a booming voice] Step forward, Tin Man!

  Tin Woodsman: [terrified, steps forward] Ohhhh!

  Wizard of Oz: [still in a booming voice] You DARE to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caligenous junk!

  
  
  

  Wizard of Oz: [booming voice] And you, Scarecrow, have the affrontery to ask for a brain, you billowing bale of bovine fodder!

  Scarecrow: Y-Yes... Yes, Your Honor... I mean, Your Excellency... I-I mean, Your Wizardry.

  Wizard of Oz: [booming] Enough!

  
  
  

  Dorothy: How do you talk if you don't have a brain?

  Scarecrow: Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking don't they?

  
  
  
  “There is no place like home.”
  
  

  
  
  “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  “As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.
  
  What has happened?' the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby carriage along the sidewalk.
  
  Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well,' replied the man; 'and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City.'
  
  Hm!' said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. 'If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?'
  
  I really do not know,' replied the man, with a deep sigh. 'Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.”
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  “That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  “A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”
  
  

  
  
  “Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”
  
  

  
  
  “You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
  
  

  
  
  “Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
  
  - Wizard”
  
  

  
  
  “Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
  
  - Tin Man”
  
  

  
  
  “If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  “I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. ”
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  
  “How very wet this water is.”
  
  

  
  
  “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
  
  

  
  
  “How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
  
  I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
  
  

  
  
  “Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”
  
  

  
  
  “Oh - You're a very bad man!"
  
  Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.”
  
  

  
  
  “Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world."
  
  Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.
  
  No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”
  
  

  
  
  “A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get. ”
  
  

  
  
  “If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”
  
  

  
  
  “Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.”
  
  

  
  
  “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
  
  

  
  
  “My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness.
  
  - Wicked Witch of the North”
  
  

  
  
  “As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
  
  

  
  
  “You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”
  
  

  
  
  “To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.”
  
  

  
  
  “But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”
  
  

  
  
  “For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.”
  
  

  
  
  “Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow.
  
  "You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
  
  

  
  
  “People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”
  
  

  
  
  “I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,"
  
  spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
  
  Who are you, and why do you seek me?”
  
  

  
  
  
  “If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”
  
  

  
  
  “If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.”
  
  

  
  
  “Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
  
  ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”
  
  

  
  
  “It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”
  
  

  
  
  “During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”
  
  

  
  
  “But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow.
  
  'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.'
  
  'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman.
  
  'It may be,' said the Lion.”
  
  

  
  
  “…and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder.
  
  For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden,
  
  a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face,
  
  who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.”
  
  

  
  
  “He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy.
  
  "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion.
  
  "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.”
  
  

  
  
  “Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.”
  
  

  
  
  “The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made of." "Rest you brains and do not worry about the wall," replied the Woodman, "when we have climbed over it we shall know what is on the other side.”
  
  

  
  
  “When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.”
  
  

  
  
  “Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.”
  
  

  
  
  “I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."
  
  "That is because you have no brains," answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."
  
  The Scarecrow sighed.
  
  "Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”
  
  

  
  
  “and as they walked along he sang "Tol-de-ri-de-oh!" at every step, he felt so gay.”
  
  

  
  
  “It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. - The Tin Woodsman, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pgs 72-73.”
  
  

  
  
  “midst”
  
  

  
  
  “I am content in knowing I am as brave as any best that ever lived, if not braver.”
  
  

  
  
  “The cyclone had set the house down gently, very gently – for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches of green sward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies.”
  
  

  
  
  “Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" cried Dorothy, clasping her hands together in dismay. "The house must have fallen on her. Whatever shall we do?”
  
  

  
  
  “True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...”
  
  

  
  
  “dismal”
  
  

  
  
  
  “In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians" ~ The Witch of the North”
  
  

  
  
  
  “You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.”
  
  

  
  
  
  “No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
  
  

  
  
  
  “She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto put his cold little nose into her face and whined dismally. Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room. She sprang from her bed and with Toto at her heels ran and opened the door.”
  
  

  
  
  
  “It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.”
  
  

  
  
  
  “Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land”
  
  

  tags: inspirational-quote

  
  
  

  
  
  
  “...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
  
  

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: Cantankerous.

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: There's no place like home.

  Dorothy Gale: Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: How do you talk if you don't have a brain?

  The Scarecrow: Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking don't they?

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Please sir, we've done what you told us. We brought you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her!

  The Wizard of Oz: Oh, you liquidated her, eh? Very resourceful!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: She isn't coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt you? She tried to, didn't she? Come on. We'll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: I think I'll miss you most of all.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had. And it's funny, but I feel as if I'd known you all the time, but I couldn't have, could I?

  The Scarecrow: I don't see how. You weren't around when I was stuffed and sewn together, were you?

  The Tin Woodsman: And I was standing over there, rusting for the longest time.

  Dorothy Gale: Still, I wish I could remember, but I guess it doesn't matter anyway. We know each other now, don't we?

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: What would you do with a brain if you had one?

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Oh, Thank you so much! We've been gone such a long time and we feel so messy. What kind of a horse is that? I've never seen a horse like that before!

  The Wizard of Oz: And never will again, I fancy. There's only one of him and he's it. He's the Horse of a Different Color, you've heard tell about.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home. Home! And this is my room and you're all here. And I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all, and oh Auntie Em, there's no place like home!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: My! People come and go so quickly here!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. We must be over the rainbow! Now I know we're not in Kansas!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Did you say something?

  Dorothy Gale: He said oil can!

  The Scarecrow: Oil can what?

  Dorothy Gale: Oil can.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!

  The Cowardly Lion: You're right, I am a coward! I haven't any courage at all. I even scare myself.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Weren't you frightened?

  The Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe. I was petrified

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Now which way do we go?

  The Scarecrow: Pardon me, this way is a very nice way.

  Dorothy Gale: Who said that? Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.

  The Scarecrow: It's pleasant down that way, too.

  Dorothy Gale: That's funny. Wasn't he pointing the other way?

  The Scarecrow: Of course, some people do go both ways.

  
  
  

  Glinda the Good Witch: Now those magic slippers will take you home in two seconds! Glinda: Toto too!

  Dorothy Gale: Oh! Toto too?

  
  
  

  Guild Singer: We represent the Lollipop Guild. The Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild. And in the name of the Lollipop Guild. We wish to welcome you to Munchkin Land.

  
  
  

  The Cowardly Lion: [climbing up a mountain with the Tin Woodsman hanging on his tail] I hope my strength holds out. Tin Woodsman: I hope your tail holds out !

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: There's no place like home!

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: Wanna play ball?

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh my!

  
  
  

  The Cowardly Lion: Look at the circles under my eyes, I haven't slept in weeks!

  The Tin Woodsman: Why don't you try counting sheep?

  The Cowardly Lion: That doesn't do any good, I'm afraid of them!

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: Take special care of those ruby slippers, I want those most of all. Now fly! Fly!

  
  
  

  Zeke: It's a twister! It's a twister!

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  The Tin Woodsman: But I still want one.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?

  The Scarecrow: I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you my pretty... And your little dog too!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: There's no place like home.

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: Was I scared? You're talking to a man who laughed at death, sneered at danger, and chuckled at catastrophe. I was terrified.

  
  
  

  The Cowardly Lion: There's only one thing I want you guys to do. Talk me out of it.

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream Really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far Behind me. Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me. Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly Beyond the rainbow Why, oh why can't I?

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: A heart is shown not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Lions?

  The Scarecrow: And Tigers?

  The Tin Woodsman: And bears.

  Dorothy Gale: Oh my!

  
  
  

  Glinda the Good Witch: You have no power here! Begone, before somebody drops a house on you, too!

  The Wicked Witch of the West: [quickly looks skyward, scanning for falling houses]

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Did you say something?

  The Tin Woodsman: [indiscernible sounds from the Tin Man, who is rusted]

  Dorothy Gale: He said oil can!

  The Scarecrow: Oil can what?

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Oh please, Professor, why can't we go with you and see all the Crowned Heads of Europe?

  Prof. Marvel: Do you know any? Oh, you mean the... thing. Yes.

  
  
  

  Zeke: [to pigs] Get in there, before I make a dime bank out of you.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: There's no place like home.

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Some where over the rainbow way up high... there's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  
  
  

  The Cowardly Lion: Put 'em up, put 'em up!

  
  
  

  The Scarecrow: And I'm sure to have a brain...

  The Tin Woodsman: A heart...

  Dorothy Gale: A home...

  The Cowardly Lion: The nerve!

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

  
  
  

  Glinda the Good Witch: Come out, come out, wherever you are and meet the young lady, who fell from a star.

  
  
  

  The Cowardly Lion: You're stepping on my tail.

  
  
  

  Munchkin Coroner: And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.

  
  
  

  Toto: Woof, woof.

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: I don't think were in Kansas anymore.

  
  
  

  The Wizard of Oz: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

  The Scarecrow: Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

  The Tin Woodsman: Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

  
  
  

  Juliet: hahaha!! catch me if you can

  
  
  

  The Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog too!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: There's no place like home!

  
  
  

  Dorothy Gale: Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

• Dorothy

  
  
  

  
  
  
  • "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
    
    
  • Someplace where there isn't any trouble... [tossing a piece of her cruller to Toto] ...do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or train. It's far, far away... behind the moon... beyond the rain.
    
    [singing] Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,
    
    There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
    
    Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,
    
    And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
  • Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!
    • [Note: This line is ranked #4 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.]
  • Well, I... I think that it... that it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em... and it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.
  • There's no place like home; there's no place like home; there's no place like home...
    • [Note: This line is ranked #23 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.]
  • [last lines] Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home – home! And this is my room – and you're all here – and I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And... oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home!

  Scarecrow

  • Why, if I had a brain I could...
    
    [singing] I could wile away the hours,
    
    Conferrin' with the flowers,
    
    Consultin' with the rain.
    
    And my head I'd be scratchin'
    
    While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
    
    If I only had a brain.

  Tin Man

  • [singing] When a man's an empty kettle,
    
    He should be on his mettle,
    
    And yet I'm torn apart.
    
    Just because I'm presumin'
    
    That I could be kinda human
    
    If I only had a heart.

  Cowardly Lion

  • [singing] Yeah, it's sad, believe me, Missy,
    
    When you're born to be a sissy,
    
    Without the vim and verve.
    
    But I could show my prowess,
    
    Be a lion, not a "mowess,"
    
    If I only had the nerve.

  Wicked Witch of the West

  • [to Glinda] Very well – I'll bide my time. [to Dorothy] And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like; but just try to stay out of my way – just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too! [With a burst of laughter, she whirls around and vanishes in a burst of smoke and fire and a clap of thunder.]
    • [Note: Bolded line is ranked #99 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.]
  • [last words] Ohhh! You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness! Ohhh! Look out! Look out! I'm going! Ohhhh – Ohhhhhhhhhh!

  The Wizard

  • I AM OZ.... the Great and Powerful! Who are you?
  • Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Oz has spoken!
  • Silence! Whippersnapper!

  The Munchkins

  • [singing] Ding Dong, the witch is dead,
    Which old witch?
    The wicked witch.
    Ding Dong, the wicked witch is dead!
  • [singing] You're off to see the Wizard,
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
    You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz
    If ever a Wiz there was.
    If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was
    The Wizard of Oz is one because
    Because, because, because, because, because...
    Because of the wonderful things he does.

  Dialogue

  Almira Gulch: Gale?
  Uncle Henry Gale: Well, howdy, Miss Gulch.
  Gulch: I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy!
  Henry: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
  Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
  Henry: You mean she bit you?
  Gulch: No, her dog.
  Henry: Oh. She bit her dog, eh?
  Gulch: ...No!

  Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
  Scarecrow: I don't know....but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

  Dorothy: Do – do you suppose we'll meet any wild animals?
  Tin Man: Mmm, we might.
  Dorothy: Oh!
  Scarecrow: Animals that – that eat straw?
  Tin Man: Uh, some. But mostly lions and tigers and bears.
  Dorothy: Lions?
  Scarecrow: And tigers?
  Tin Man: [nodding] And bears.
  Dorothy: Oh! Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my!

  Dorothy [noticing the horse drawing their carriage is one of changing colors]: What kind of a horse is that? I've never seen a horse like that before!
  Coachman: No, and never will again, I fancy! There's only one of him, and he's it. He's the Horse of a Different Color you've heard tell about!

  “Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.”
  
  

  “If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis. We're going to have to get rid of ... ... A lot of classic children's literature is not going to be allowed to survive.”

  
  “If you're working in a restaurant, you can't play at being a waitress. Food gets to the table or it doesn't, and you're paid to get it there. It's a straightforward exchange. Now (in Bait and Switch ), I entered a world where so much depends on your personality and self-presentation. I found that very murky.”

  
  
  “feel a certain sense of rejection and inadequacy. I was doing everything I was told to do. It couldn't all have been because I had the wrong lapel pin. I just felt like I couldn't get in. I could not make myself visible.”

  
  “You try to do everything the director wants and try to make the actors comfortable,'' Treglown said. ”

  “I'm on my third Mrs. Potts' costume,'' Treglown said. ”

  “A Star Is Born.”

  “I don't have economic pressure anymore. ... You know, there will be a single mother out there who will understand nothing means more to me than the fact I don't have to worry about (money) anymore because it's a difficult way to live.”

  “I've got to have them.”

  “Even though I have my own copy here, I want to see what it looks like on the shelf.”

  “Close you eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home.”
  
  “Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”

  “That's the scary part. I didn't know if I should smile, crack up, scream or run.”

  “Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now.”
  
  “Auntie Em: For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!”
  
  “Professor Marvel: Professor Marvel never guesses. He knows!”
  
  “Dorothy: Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.”
  
  “1) Are you a good witch or a bad witch? 2) Oh, i'm not a witch at all! I'm Dorothy, from Kansas.”

  Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. I've got a brain!

  Dorothy: Follow the yellow brick road.

  Wicked Witch: I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!

  Wicked Witch: Ohhh... you cursed brat! Look what you've DONE! I'm melting! Melting! Oh... what a world, what a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?!

  Dorothy: There's no place like home.

  Lion: [crying] Look at the circles under my eyes, I haven't slept in weeks.

  Tin Man: Well, why don't you count sheep?

  Lion: Oh it's no use, I'm afraid of them.

  Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?

  Scarecrow: I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

  Dorothy: Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  She’s wearing the ruby slippers she gave her.

  First they took my legs off and they threw them over there! Then they took my chest out and they threw it over there!
  

  Oh, you’re the best friends anybody ever had. And it’s funny, but I feel as if I’d known you all the time, but I couldn’t have, could I?

  Going so soon? I wouldn’t hear of it. Why my little party’s just beginning.

  Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?

  Oh, you’re wasting my time!

  I don’t see how. You weren’t around when I was stuffed and sewn together, were you?

  I’ll see you reach the Wizard, whether I get a heart or not. Beehive, bah! Let her try and make a beehive out of me!

  I’m not a witch at all. I’m Dorothy Gale from Kansas.

  A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

  Oh, please! Please, sir! I’ve got to see the Wizard! The Good Witch of the North sent me!

  Now that’s getting personal, Lion.

  If the Wizard is a wizard who will serve.

  Don’t be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don’t talk.

  Oh, Auntie Em, don’t go away! I’m frightened! Come back! Come back!

  Helping the little lady along are you, my fine gentlemen? Well stay away from her, or I’ll stuff a mattress with you! And you, I’ll make you into a beehive. Here Scarecrow, want to play ball?

  Oh, no. It’s just that she doesn’t like little green worms!

  Of course, some people do go both ways.

  Please, sir. We’ve done what you told us. We brought you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her!

  Still, I wish I could remember, but I guess it doesn’t matter anyway. We know each other now, don’t we?

  I’d be gentle as a lizard…

  I can’t come back, I don’t know how it works! Good-bye, folks!

  Oh dear! I keep forgetting I’m not in Kansas!

  I’d be clever as a gizzard…

  How would it be if she keeps him tied up? He’s really gentle… with gentle people, that is.

  I didn’t mean to kill her. Really, I didn’t. It’s just that he was on fire.

  She isn’t coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt you? She tried to, didn’t she? Come on. We’ll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em.

  
  
  

   

  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  

   

  
  
  
  Dorothy Quotes:
  
  
• It really was no miracle. What happened was just this... [singing] The wind began to switch / The house, to pitch / And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch / Just then the Witch / To satisfy an itch / Went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch!


• Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!


• Do you suppose we'll meet any wild animals?


• My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!


• I've got a witch mad at me and you might get into trouble!


• [singing] Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Bluebirds fly. Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why cant I?


• I didn't mean to kill her. Really, I didn't. It's just that he was on fire.


• Theirs no place like home.

Scarecrow Quotes:

• Pardon me, this way is a very nice way.


• Scarecrow: Come along, Dorothy. You don't want any of *those* apples.
  Apple Tree: Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?
  Scarecrow: Oh, no. It's just that she doesn't like little green worms!


• I haven't got a brain... only straw.


• took my legs off and they threw them over there! Then they took my chest out and they threw it over there!


• It's no use screaming at a time like this. Nobody will hear you. Help! Help!

Tin Woodsman Quotes:

• Some, but mostly lions, and tigers, and bears.
  
• Why don't you try counting sheep?


• Here, here. Go away and let us alone.


• I'll see you reach the Wizard, whether I get a heart or not. Beehive, bah! Let her try and make a beehive out of me!


• Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking...

Cowardly Lion Quotes:

• Unusual weather we're having, ain't it?


• All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do.


• Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?


• Shucks, folks, I'm speechless. Ha Ha!


• I'll get you anyway, Pee-wee.


• If I were king of the fore-e-e-est / Not queen, not duke, not prince / My regal robes of the fore-e-e-est / Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz / I'd command each thing, whether fish or fowl / With a r-r-ruff and a r-r-ruff, and a royal growl - R-R-Ruff! / As I click my heels / All the trees would kneel / And the mountains bow / And the bulls kowtow / And the sparrow would take wing / If I, if I were ki-i-i-i-ng! / The rabbits would show respect to me / The chipmunks genuflect to me / Though my tail would lash / I would show compash / For every underling / If I, if I were king / Just ki-i-i-i-ing!


• Read what my medal says: "Courage". Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?

Dorothy, “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!”
The Wicked Witch, “Very well – I’ll bide my time. [to Dorothy] And as for you, my fine lady, it’s true I can’t attend to you here and now as I’d like; but just try to stay out of my way – just try! I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”
Dorothy, “Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!”
The Wizard, “ “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The Great Oz has spoken!”
The Tin Man, ” Now I know I’ve got a heart… ‘Cause it’s breaking.”
Dorothy, “[last lines] Oh, but anyway, Toto, we’re home – home! And this is my room – and you’re all here – and I’m not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And… oh, Auntie Em, there’s no place like home!”

I’ve got a witch mad at me and you might get into trouble!

If I were king of the fore-e-e-est

Not queen, not duke, not prince

My regal robes of the fore-e-e-est

Would be satin, not cotton, not chintz

I’d command each thing, whether fish or fowl

With a r-r-ruff and a r-r-ruff, and a royal growl – R-R-Ruff!

As I click my heels

All the trees would kneel

And the mountains bow

And the bulls kowtow

And the sparrow would take wing

If I, if I were ki-i-i-i-ng!

The rabbits would show respect to me

The chipmunks genuflect to me

Though my tail would lash

I would show compash

For every underling

If I, if I were king

Put ‘em up, put ‘em up! Which one of you first? I’ll fight you both together if you want. I’ll fight you with one paw tied behind my back. I’ll fight you standing on one foot. I’ll fight you with my eyes closed… ohh, pullin’ an axe on me, eh? Sneaking up on me, eh? Why, I’ll… Ruff!

Talk me out of it!

Now I know I’ve got a heart, ’cause it’s breaking…

A place where there isn’t any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It’s far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain…

I’d be too scared to ask him for it.

I’d show him who was king of the forest!

I’m here in Oz, Auntie Em! I’m locked in the witch’s castle, and I’m trying to get home to you, Auntie Em!

How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?

Come back! Come back! Don’t go without me! Please come back!

Animals that eat… s-traw?

Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!

Only bad witches are ugly.

Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn’t mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I’ve been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now… well, being a Christian woman, I can’t say it!

Frightened? Child, you’re talking to a man who’s laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe… I was petrified.

I’ll get you anyway, Pee-wee.

I don’t know… But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don’t they?

It’s pleasant down that way, too.

I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do, I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do, I do!

Oh, thank you so much! Now we can go back to the Wizard, and tell him the Wicked Witch is dead!

Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of spears! Thought you were pretty foxy, didn’t you? Well! The last to go will see the first three go before her! And your mangy little dog, too!

As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

And now, my beauties, something with poison in it, I think. With poison in it, but attractive to the eye, and soothing to the smell.

I have so got brains.

Orders are nobody can see the Great Oz! Not nobody, not nohow!

Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

Now I… I know we’re not in Kansas!

All right, I’ll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I’ll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I’m going in there. There’s only one thing I want you fellows to do.

Poppies… Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleeeeep. Now they’ll sleeeeep!

Oh. Well, is that the witch?

It’s on the door – as plain as the nose on my face!

Help us out today and find yourself a place where you won’t get into any trouble!

Can’t you read?

Ah! You’ll believe in more than that before I’m finished with you.

Ooh! What a smell of sulfur.

My! People come and go so quickly here!

That’s… Doctor of Thinkology.

I’m frightened, Auntie Em! I’m frightened!

Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Come back! I’ll give you Auntie Em, my pretty! Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh!

I’d sooner wait outside.

I’m not afraid of her! I’ll see you get safely to the Wizard now, whether I get a brain or not. Stuff a mattress with me. Ha!

No, but you tried to. It’s bad enough picking on a straw man, but picking on a little dog.

Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!

Back where I come from there are men who do nothing all day but good deeds. They are called phila… er, phila… er, yes, er, Good Deed Doers.

I’d wrap him up in cellophane!

I’m not afraid of her.

Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven’t slept in weeks!

Oh, Thank you so much! We’ve been gone such a long time and we feel so messy… What kind of a horse is that? I’ve never seen a horse like that before!

Come on, get up and fight, ya shivering junkyard!
Put your hands up, ya lopsided bag o’ hay!

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Oh, you liquidated her, eh? Very resourceful!

I haven’t got a brain… only straw.

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That doesn’t do any good, I’m afraid of ‘em.

Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the “ape” in apricot? What have they got that I ain’t got?

Come along, Dorothy. You don’t want any of those apples.

How about a little fire, Scarecrow?

Shucks, folks, I’m speechless. Ha Ha!

Oh, scared, huh? Afraid, huh? Ah, how long can you stay fresh in that can? Ha ha ha ha.

I am the great and powerful…
… Wizard of Oz.

It really was no miracle. What happened was just this…

Don’t start posing for it now.

Goodbye, Tinman. Oh, don’t cry! You’ll rust so dreadfully. Here’s your oil can.

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