326 Quotes by L. Frank Baum

Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.

How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain? I don’t know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.

The only way to do a thing Is do it when you can, And do it cheerfully, and sing And work and think and plan. The only real unhappy one Is he who dares to shirk; The only really happy one Is he who cares to work.

A Glass Cat!” exclaimed Ojo, astonished. “Yes; she makes a very pleasant companion, but admires herself a little more than is considered modest, and she positively refuses to catch mice,” explained Margolotte. “My husband made the cat some pink brains, but they proved to be too high-bred and particular for a cat, so she thinks it is undignified in her to catch mice. Also she has a pretty blood-red heart, but it is made of stone – a ruby, I think – and so is rather hard and unfeeling.

With Dorothy hard at work, the.

Don’t tell anyone I’m a poet; they might want me to write a book. Don’t tell ’em I can sing, or they’d want me to make records for that awful phonograph. Haven’t time to be a public benefactor, so I’ll just sing you this little song for your own amusement.

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

We dare not harm this little girl,” he said to them, “for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil. All we can do is carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch and leave her there.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.