The Wizard of Oz Top Movie Quotes

The Wizard of Oz is a movie that millions still watch to this day because it will always be a classic. Oz is one movie in which almost every line has become a quote or phrase in popular culture. A quote such as "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" is especially popular in movies and politics and it roughly means that you should not only pay attention to what is in front of your face. There could be someone else who is actually pulling the strings. Here are some of the greatest quotes from one of the greatest movies of our time, The Wizard of Oz.

Dorothy: Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!

Wicked Witch of the West: I'll get you my pretty... and your little dog too!

Mayor of Munchkin City: Let the joyous news be spread. The wicked witch at last is dead!

Auntie Em Gale: Almira Gulch. Just because you own half the town doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!

Dorothy: Your majesty, if you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anything?
Cowardly Lion: Not nobody. Not nohow.
Tin Woodsman: Not even a rhinoceros?
Cowardly Lion: Imposerous!
Dorothy: Supposing you met an elephant?
Cowardly Lion: I'd wrap him up in cellophant.
Dorothy: What about a hippopotamus?
Cowardly Lion: I'd thrash him from top to bottomus.
Scarecrow: What if it were a brontosaurus?
Cowardly Lion: I'd show him who was king of the forest.

Wizard of Oz: You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you're confusing courage with wisdom.

Dorothy: Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Miss Gulch: Mr. Gale?
Uncle Henry Gale: Well, howdy, Miss Gulch.
Miss Gulch: [comes into the Gales yard] I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy.
Uncle Henry Gale: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
Miss Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
Uncle Henry Gale: You mean she bit you?
Miss Gulch: No, her dog!
Uncle Henry Gale: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?
Miss Gulch: [Uncle Henry tries to shut the gate, but ends up hitting her on the backside] No!

Wizard of Oz: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

[Dorothy has thrown water on the Wicked Witch of the West]
Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting!

Dorothy: Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Bluebirds fly. Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why cant I?

Dorothy: There's no place like home.