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Matt Glasby

In this regular feature series on some of the most talked-about films, we examine the legacy of classics, re-evaluate modern blockbusters, and revisit some of the most memorable lines in film.
We continue this week with the best quotes from 1939’s The Wizard of Oz .
1. Dorothy (Judy Garland): “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
2. The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton): “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

3. Dorothy: “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”
The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger): “I don’t know … But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?”
4. The Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan): “A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.”

5. The Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr): “What makes a king out of a slave? Courage!”
6. Munchkin Coroner (Meinhardt Raabe): “As coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. And she’s not only merely dead. She’s really most sincerely dead!”
7. Dorothy: “Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!”

8. The Wizard of Oz: “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! The greatest Oz has spoken!”
9. The Wicked Witch of the West: “I’m melting! Melting!”
10. Dorothy: “Oh, Auntie Em – there’s no place like home!”
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The Wizard of Oz, with Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Wicked Witch and, of course, Toto the dog, is a classic from another era
Some of its quotes have made it into common use and here is a selection



The Wizard of Oz, with Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Wicked Witch and, of course, Toto the dog, is a classic from another era. Some of its quotes have made it into common use and here is a selection.


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