"I hope my strength holds out." "I hope your tail holds out!"
"Yes, get up and teach him a lesson." "What's wrong with you teaching him?" "Well I hardly know him." Scarecrow and the Tin Man, my heroes.
The Lion had some great one liners.
"How long can ya stay fresh in that can?"
"Trapped! Trapped like mice – er – rats!"
Of of his best moments is the one where he says nothing at all. "Ehhhhh... and YOU, Lion!" Lion is of course too frightened to speak. "WELL?!" The Lion promptly faints.
Despite not having any brains, the Scarecrow makes a very good point. "I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?"
Aunt Em: "Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county 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!" Of course that particular scene borders onto Moment of Awesome territory.
This Troper recalls seeing the film in theathers after 70 years and the crowd still getting a huge laugh out of this line...
Dorothy: Professor Marvel, why can't we go with you and see all the crowned heads of Europe?
Professor Marvel: Do you know any?! .... Oh, you mean the things...
This exchange:
Dorothy: Weren't you frightened?
Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified.
When Gilda tells the Wicked Witch to "Begone! Before someone drops a house on you!" the Witch actually looks up in alarm!
"You mean she bit ya?" "No, her dog." "Ohh...she bit her dog, eh?"
