Quotes from bookThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. It has since seen several reprints, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 live-action film.
„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.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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„It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: 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.
„People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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„Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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„Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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„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?“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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„Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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„The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
"You people with hearts," he said, "have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much."
„I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Context: "All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."
"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
„The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick," said the Witch, "so you cannot miss it.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick," said the Witch, "so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you".
„When I was a boy I was tremendously interested in scarecrows. They always seemed to my childish imagination as just about to wave their arms, straighten up and stalk across the field on their long legs. I lived on a farm, you know. It was natural then that my first character in this animated life series was the scarecrow, on whom I have taken revenge for all the mystic feeling he once inspired.
Then came the Tin Woodman, named because of the oddity of a Woodman made of tin, and then Pumpkinhead, and now, of course, the Wogglebug.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), About The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum "Philadelphia North American", (3 October 1904), as quoted by "Map of Kansas Literature" http://www.washburn.edu/reference/cks/mapping/baum/ Washburn.edu.
„One of my greatest fears was the Witches, for while I had no magical powers at all I soon found out that the Witches were really able to do wonderful things. There were four of them in this country, and they ruled the people who live in the North and South and East and West. Fortunately, the Witches of the North and South were good, and I knew they would do me no harm; but the Witches of the East and West were terribly wicked, and had they not thought I was more powerful than they themselves, they would surely have destroyed me.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
„Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.“
— L. Frank Baum, book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Ch. 1, "The Cyclone"
