Quotes from Noel Langley

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. - Wizard

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

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.

What a world, what a world. Who would have thought that. some little girl like you could. destroy my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the West

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home.

WHAT? YOU AGAIN?' he shouted in capital letters.

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It.

He was singing a song he had composed entirely without professional assistance.

Desist!' cried the wicked Prince Tintac Ping Foo in a sizzling frenzy. 'I came here to buy a magic carpet! One that flies! Show me what you have!