Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy. "Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Presently Jack Pumpkinhead became uneasy. "I wonder if riding through the air is liable to spoil pumpkins," he said. "Not unless you… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him.… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“You have; and I’ve restrained a good many of them,” replied the insect. “But there are opportunities for so many excellent puns… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image