Coroner: [singing] As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.
Wicked Witch of the West: Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
Wicked Witch of the West: The last to go will see the first three go before her. And her little dog too.
Wicked Witch of the West: But that's not what's worrying me. It's how to do it. These things must be done delicately... or you hurt the spell.
Ozmites: [singing] We get up at 12 and start to work at 1! Take an hour for lunch and then, at 2, we're done! Jolly good fun!
Dorothy: [has just arrived in Oz, looking around and awed at the beauty and splendor] Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more. Dorothy: [after a pause] We must be over the rainbow! [a bubble appears in the sky and gets closer and closer. It...
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
Wicked Witch of the West: Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
Scarecrow: What about the heart that you promised Tin Man? Or the courage you promised Lion? Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion: And Scarecrow's brain?
Cowardly Lion: I- I- I hope my strength holds out. Tin Woodsman: [hanging by Lion's tail] I hope your tail holds out!
Scarecrow: Witch? Hmph, I'm not afraid of a witch. I'm not afraid of anything - except a lighted match. [points to the straw in his arm] Dorothy: I don't blame you for that.
I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and T...
Dorothy: How do you talk if you don't have a brain? Scarecrow: Well, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking don't they?
Scarecrow: First they [the Flying Monkeys] Scarecrow: took my legs off and they threw them over there! Then they took my chest out and they threw it over there! Tin Woodsman: Well, that's you all over!
Dorothy: Did you say something? Tin Woodsman: [indiscernible sounds from the Tin Man, who is rusted] Dorothy: He said oil can! Scarecrow: Oil can what? Dorothy: Oil can.
Dorothy: Oh please, Professor, why can't we go with you and see all the Crowned Heads of Europe? Professor Marvel: Do you know any? Oh, you mean the... thing. Yes.
Mayor of Munchkin City: Then this is a day of independence for all the Munchkins and their descendants! Munchkin: If any! Mayor of Munchkin City: Yes - let the joyous news be spread! The Wicked Old Witch at last is dead!
[first lines] Dorothy: She isn't coming yet, Toto. Did she hurt you? She tried to, didn't she? Come on. We'll go tell Uncle Henry and Auntie Em.
Scarecrow: [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.
Professor Marvel: Better get under cover, Sylvester. There's a storm blowin' up - a whopper, to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry. Poor little kid, I hope she gets home all right.
