Uncle Henry quotes from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Mr. Gale!

Uncle Henry

Howdy, Miss Gulch.

I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy.

Uncle Henry

Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?

What's she done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg.

Uncle Henry

You mean she bit ya?

No, her dog.

Uncle Henry

Oh, she bit her dog, eh?

No!

That dog's a menace to the community. I'm taking him to the sheriff to make sure he's destroyed.

Dorothy

Destroyed? Toto? Oh, you can't! You mustn't! Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, you won't let her, will ya?

Uncle Henry

Course we won't. Will we, Em?

Dorothy

Please, Aunt Em. Toto didn't mean to. He didn't know he was doing anything wrong. I'm the one that ought to be punished. I let him go in her garden. You can send me to bed without supper.

If you don't hand over that dog, I'll bring a damage suit that will take your whole farm! There's a law protectin' folks against dogs that bite!

Auntie Em

How would it be if she keeps him tied up? He's really gentle, with gentle people, that is.

Well, that's for the sheriff to decide. Here's his order, allowing me to take him, unless you want to go against the law.

Auntie Em

We can't go against the law, Dorothy. I'm afraid poor Toto will have to go.

Now you're seeing the reason. Here's what I'm taking him in, so he can't attack me again!

Dorothy

No, no, I won't let you take him! You go away, you, or I'll bite you myself!

Auntie Em

Dorothy!

Dorothy

You wicked old witch! Uncle Henry, Auntie Em, don't let her take him! [struggles with Miss Gulch]

I've got an order!

Auntie Em

Put him in the basket, Henry.

Dorothy

Oh Toto. [runs out, crying]

The idea!

Auntie Em

Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you. And now, well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!

Dorothy

But it wasn't a dream. It was a place, and you [Hunk] and you [Hickory] and you [Zeke]... and you [Professor Marvel] were there. [Everyone laughs] But you couldn't have been, could you?

Auntie Em

We dream lots of silly things when we...

Dorothy

No, Aunt Em. This is a real, truly live place. And I remember that some of it wasn't very nice. But most of it was beautiful. But just the same, all I kept saying to everybody was, 'I want to go home.' And they sent me home. [Everyone chuckles again] Doesn't anybody believe me?

Uncle Henry

Of course we believe you, Dorothy.

Dorothy

Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home! Home! And this is my room - and you're all here! And I'm not gonna leave here ever, ever again because I love you all! - And oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home. There's no place like home.