The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Quotes

“I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:goodevil

“Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:goodforgiveness

“Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:educationmorality

“It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:lonelinessthinking

“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:foolishnessfeeling

“Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:intelligence

“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:joy

“Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:care

“If we walk far enough . . . I am sure we shall sometime come to some place.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:progress

“How can I help being a humbug, . . . when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

topic:contradiction