Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Quotes

“H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain."
"How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“Well," said Dorothy, "I was born on a farm in Kansas, and I guess that's being just as 'spectable and haughty as living in a cave with a tail tied to a rock. If it isn't I'll have to stand it, that's all.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“Was Ozma once a boy?" asked Zeb, wonderingly. "Yes; a wicked witch enchanted her, so she could not rule her kingdom. But she's a girl now, and the sweetest, loveliest girl in all the world.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“I try to answer every letter of my young correspondents; yet sometimes there are so many letters that a little time must pass before you get your answer. But be patient, friends, for the answer will surely come, and by writing to me you more than repay me for the pleasant task of preparing these books. Besides, I am proud to acknowledge that the books are partly yours, for your suggestions often guide me in telling the stories, and I am sure they would not be half so good without your clever and thoughtful assistance. L. FRANK BAUM Coronado, 1908.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“They now separated to prepare for the sad ceremony; for whenever an appeal is made to law sorrow is almost certain to follow — even in a fairyland like Oz.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz

“To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time." said the Wizard
"As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“But why fight at all, in that case?" asked the girl. "So I may die with a clear conscience," returned the Wizard, gravely. "It's every man's duty to do the best he knows how; and I'm going to do it.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“Any friend of Dorothy," remarked the Cowardly Lion, "must be our friend, as well. So let us cease this talk of skull crushing and converse upon more pleasant subjects. Have you breakfasted, Sir Horse?”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“Then the servants heaped a lot of rugs upon the floor and the old horse slept on the softest bed he had ever known in his life.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“Thank you. We have seen no people since we arrived, so we came to this house to enquire our way.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

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― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“Fishes are not animals,”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“Oz, promptly. "One Wizard is worth three Sorcerers.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

“It's all wrong," said Zeb, gravely. "Animals ought not to talk.”
― L. Frank Baum, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz