The Scarecrow of Oz Quotes

“No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“...but those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“...thanks for good deeds do not amount to much except to prove one's politeness.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“I'm not thinking, just now,' answered the little boy. 'It tires me to think, and I never seem to gain anything by it. When we see the people who live here we will know what they are like, and no 'mount of thinking will make them any different.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“Their feathers make soft beds,' asserted Pessim.
'And my skin would make excellent drumheads,' retorted the Ork. 'Nevertheless, a plucked bird or a skinned Ork would be of no value to himself, so we needn't brag of our usefulness after we are dead. But for the sake of argument, friend Pessim, I'd like to know what good YOU would be, were you not alive?”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“Seems to me," said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, "seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“Why, we must be polite, whatever we do. It would be very rude to conquer a king without proper notice.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“Nobody can stay alive without getting into danger sometimes, and danger doesn't mean getting hurt, Cap'n; it only means we might get hurt.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“If I'm going to starve, I'll do it all at once—not by degrees.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“It's a big world, Flipper, my son,' he would say, 'and I've heard that in parts of it live queer two-legged creatures called Men, who war upon all other living things and would have little respect for even an Ork.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz

“All right; let's go!" Trot decided. "But where's Button-Bright?" Just at this important moment Button-Bright was lost again, and they all scattered in search of him. He had been standing beside them just a few minutes before, but his friends had an exciting hunt for him before they finally discovered the boy seated among the members of the band, beating the end of the bass drum with the bone of a turkey-leg that he had taken from the table in the banquet room. "Hello, Trot," he said, looking up at the little girl when she found him. "This is the first chance I ever had to pound a drum with a reg'lar drum stick. And I ate all the meat off the bone myself.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Scarecrow of Oz