Oz Quotes

“I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy.

"Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.”
― L. Frank Baum

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

“Christ.

No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People
have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel’s sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think:
Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches,
God of the Mystery.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? 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?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz”
― L. Frank Baum

“How the hell was she going to fight them?
With style. She could almost hear Niko's voice. She grinned, despite herself. Do try not to die, won't you? That was Tyler. It would have been followed by a delicate yawn. And Oz: Keep your head down and don't be stupid. Lise: Bitch, do not even think about leaving me alone with all this testosterone. Giselle: You can't win if you die, so suck it up. Tutresiel: Princess, you aren't even trying if you're dying.
And Alexander: Come home.”
― Diana Pharaoh Francis, Shadow City

“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.”
― L Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Oz lists the hem of his shirt, exposing his cut abs, and wipes his brow with the material. Oh my with chocolate on top. That was just beautiful.”
― Katie McGarry, Nowhere But Here

“In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“I have a little cabinet letter file on my desk that is just in front of me. I was thinking and wondering about a title for the story, and had settled on the ‘Wizard’ as part of it. My gaze was caught by the gilt letters on the three drawers of the cabinet. The first was A-G; the next drawer was labelled H-N; and on the last were the letters O-Z. And Oz it at once became.”
― L Frank Baum

“They need a moment together and, having nothing but time, I sit on the top step and wonder if I'll find someone who will understand and accept this life like my mother.”
― Katie McGarry, Nowhere But Here

“And the Lion said to Dorothy: 'We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws. But stand close behind me, and I will fight them as long as I am alive.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“The whole operation is built on artificialness of facts which are fiction, so the mass is ignorant.
They believe everything is legit and even though there are those that know something is wrong, they don't "what" & "why" but if those two aspects are figured out, the "how" will amaze them out the hell and maze they've been in.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

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

“I beg to announce to your glorious highness,” began the Scarecrow, in a solemn voice, “that my Emerald City has been overrun by a crowd of impudent girls with knitting-needles, who have enslaved all the men, robbed the streets and public buildings of all their emerald jewels, and usurped my throne.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“Zane Parata,” she said, settling into the seat opposite him. “I thought you’d gotten swallowed up in a twister and settled among the indigenous people of Oz.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Captured Memories

“Also—if I vanish mid-sentence, don’t panic. Turns out this place takes ‘No place like home’ way too literally.”
― R.P. Gage, Noetic Gravity

“You put those goddamn pants back on this instant,” I thunder, taking a step forward.”
― Sara Ney, The Studying Hours

“A veces solo el dolor puede curar”
― Danielle Paige, Dorothy Must Die

“and remember, my sentimental friend...A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others”
― The Wizard of Oz

“They were great philosophies, simple philosophies. That everybody had a heart, everyone had a brain, everyone had courage, these were the gifts that were given to you; and if you use them properly, you reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold is home. And home is not a house or a boat, it's the people who love you. And the people you love.”
― Ray Bolger

“You can't walk on the yellow brick road without having your red shoes on. The color represents what I've been forgiven of and what I'm washed in but keeps my robe white as snow.
See it started in '13 and I would call it a well-knitted finding of marketing and money handling, pass-porting through the port as I ass through the deceit that creates defeat, a price tag on each heartbeat. But I desire to be different for my desiring in life is in contrast to the cattle of life.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“The night passed in a haze of fever sweats and vivid dreams. In one, Jack had a pumpkin for a head and a chicken for friend”
― Candace Robinson, Ozma

“Dorothy Gale, Princess of Oz, wants a minute of his time. If that’s not good enough, tell him that Dorothy Gale, Wicked Witch of the West, will have a minute of his time. If he’s accommodating now, my minute won’t happen unexpectedly in the middle of the night.”
― Seanan McGuire

“If that’s not good enough, tell him that Dorothy Gale, Wicked Witch of the West, will have a minute of his time. If he’s accommodating now, my minute won’t happen unexpectedly in the middle of the night.”
― Seanan McGuire, Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust

“He is figuratively always together because he is single-minded, and never allows anyone or anything close enough to divide him.”
― Mae Holloway, The Lost Princess of Oz

“You will remember there was no road-not even a pathway-between the castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“He had once met the Winged Monkeys in the Land of the West, and he did not wish to meet them again.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I’ll ask for a ”
― D'los Ángeles

“Debating societies had pondered long and hard over the "Oz question," and published many scholarly tracts within the pages of Spectrum. But while remnants of Tin Men had been unearthed by salvage teams, and Emerald City still existed as the center of learning and administration, no physical evidence of brick roads had ever been found anywhere in the Collective, either of natural or synthetic hue--and naturalists had long ago rejected the possibility that monkeys could fly to Oz. Oz, it was generally agreed, had been a fiction, and a fairly odd one.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey