During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart,… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?"… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country,… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
“The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
“When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
“you do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow." Dorothy followed her through… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
“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… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
“It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital that I was born an ordinary Woggle-Bug," began the creature,… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
“Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share
