I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.

Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.

I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.