Quotes from
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Aunt Em: Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!
Uncle Henry: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
Miss Almira Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
Uncle Henry: You mean she bit you?
Miss Almira Gulch: No, her dog!
Uncle Henry: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?
Miss Almira Gulch: No!
Aunt 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!
Dorothy Gale: Don't be silly, Toto. Scarecrows don't talk.
Dorothy Gale: Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!
Dorothy Gale: 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: Alright, 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 Woodman, Scarecrow: What's that?
Cowardly Lion: Talk me out of it.
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?
All: Courage!
Lion: You can say that again! Huh?
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!
Witch: You'll believe in more than that before I'm finished with you.
Lion: I- I- I hope my strength holds out.
Tinman: [hanging by Lion's tail] I hope your tail holds out!
Lion: Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven't slept in weeks.
Tinman: Why don't you try counting sheep?
Lion: That doesn't do any good; I'm afraid of 'em.
Wizard of Oz: Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Oz. I said come back tomorrow.
Dorothy Gale: I'm not afraid of her.
Zeke: Then next time she squawks, walk right up to her and spit in her eye. That's what I'd do.
Scarecrow: Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.
Coroner: [singing] 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: Oilcan.
Dorothy: He said oilcan.
Scarecrow: Oil can what?
Dorothy: Where do you want to be oiled first?
Aunt Em: Why don't you find a place where there isn't 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.
Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
Dorothy: My! People have a way of coming and going so quickly here!
Wicked Witch: Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
Wicked Witch: 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.
Cowardly Lion: How long can you stay fresh in that can?
[After encountering the witch's flying monkeys.]
Tinman: What happened to you?
Scarecrow: They tore my legs off and threw 'em over there. Then they took my chest out and threw it over there.
Tinman: Well, that's you all over!
[Dorothy watches the Wicked Witch melt]
Wicked Witch: Who ever thought a little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?
Wizard of Oz: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Wizard of Oz: Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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: Joy! Rapture! I've got a brain!
Tinman: What have you learned, Dorothy?
Dorothy Gale: 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?
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 is brought to the Witch's castle.]
Wicked Witch: 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: Who killed my sister? Who killed the Witch of the East? Was it you?
Dorothy Gale: No, no. It was an accident. I didn't mean to kill anybody.
Wicked Witch: 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!
Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Dorothy Gale: Who, me? I'm not a witch at all. I'm Dorothy Gale, from Kansas.
Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: Oh, then is that the witch?
Dorothy Gale: Toto? No, Toto's my dog.
Hunk: Ouch, you got my finger!
Zeke: Well, why don't you just get your finger out of the way?
Emerald City Doorman: Now, state your business.
Dorothy Gale: We want to see the wizard!
Emerald City Doorman: The wizard? But nobody can see the great Oz, nobody's ever seen the great Oz, even I've never seen him!
Dorothy Gale: Well then, how do you know there is one?
The 'Wizard of Oz': You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now.
Scarecrow: I'm not afraid of her. I'm not afraid of anything -- except a lighted match.
[points to the straw in his arm]
Dorothy Gale: I don't blame you for that.
Glinda: You have no power here! Begone with you!
[Dorothy accidentally splashes the Wicked Witch of the West with water.]
Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting!
Dorothy: That's a peculiar kind of horse!
Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: It's a horse of a different color!
Dorothy: [singing] Can you even dye my eyes to match my dress?
Cowardly Lion: [singing] I'm afraid there's no denyin' / I'm just a dandy-lion!
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