There's no place like home.
Note: ranked #23 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Dorothy Gale
Judy Garland · 44 quotes
The Scarecrow
Ray Bolger · 22 quotes
The Cowardly Lion
Bert Lahr · 19 quotes
The Tin Man
Jack Haley · 17 quotes
The Wicked Witch of the West
Margaret Hamilton · 13 quotes
Glinda, the Good Witch of the North
Billie Burke · 9 quotes
The Munchkins
Pinto Colvig · 6 quotes
Auntie Em
Clara Blandick · 4 quotes
Professor Marvel
Frank Morgan · 3 quotes
The Wizard
3 quotes
Uncle Henry
Charley Grapewin · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Dorothy Gale & The Scarecrow (16), The Scarecrow & The Tin Man (13), Dorothy Gale & The Tin Man (12)
The Wizard of Oz quotes
Page 4 of 6[While Dorothy is chasing Toto, the Wizard's hot-air balloon floats away.]
This is a highly irregular procedure - absolutely unprecedented. It'll ruin my exit.
Oh, wait! Come back, come back!
I can't come back, I don't know how it works!
[To the leader of the Winged Monkeys]
Take your army to the Haunted Forest and bring me that girl and her dog. Do what you want with the others, but I want her alive and unharmed. They'll give you no trouble, I promise you that. I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of 'em. Ha-ha-ha-ha! Take special care of those ruby slippers - I want those most of all. Now fly! Fly!
[singing]
Yeah, it's sad, believe me, missy,
When you're born to be a sissy,
Without the vim and verve,
But I could show my prowess,
Be a lion, not a mow-ess,
If I only had the nerve.
I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a dandy-lion —
A fate I don't deserve.
It really was no miracle, what happened was just this. The wind began to switch, the house to pitch. And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch. Just then the Witch, to satisfy an itch, went flying on her broomstick thumbin' for a hitch.
[singing]
And oh, what happened then was rich. The house began to pitch, the kitchen took a slitch. It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch. Which was not a healthy sit-uation for the Wicked Witch.
Title Card
For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young in Heart; and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of fashion. To those of you who have been faithful to it in return...and to the Young in Heart...we dedicate this picture.
I do believe in spooks! I do believe in spooks! I do, I do, I do, I do!
[singing]
We represent the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild.
And on behalf of the Lollypop Guild, we'd like to welcome you to Munchkinland!
Why, if I had a brain, I could — [begins singing]
I could while away the hours,
Conferrin' with the flowers,
Consultin' with the rain.
And my head I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.
Let the joyous news be spread — The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead!
Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!
How about a little fire, Scarecrow?
Follow the Yellow Brick Road... follow the Yellow Brick Road?
Wizard's Guard
Not nobody, not nohow!
You see, I can't even scare a crow. They come from miles around just to eat in my field and laugh in my face. Oh, I'm a failure because I haven't got a brain.