Guardian of the Emerald City Gates Quotes in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Orders are nobody can see the Great Oz! Not nobody, not nohow!

Dorothy: Oh, Thank you so much! We've been gone such a long time and we feel so messy... What kind of a horse is that? I've never seen a horse like that before!

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: And never will again, I fancy. There's only one of him and he's it. He's the Horse of a Different Color, you've heard tell about.

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Who rang that bell?

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tin Woodsman: [all four together] We did!

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Can't you read?

Scarecrow: Read what?

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: The notice!

Dorothy: What notice?

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: It's on the door - as plain as the nose on my face! It... oh...

[does a "tisk tisk tisk" expression, goes inside door for a moment]

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: [Guardian hangs the notice and goes back inside]

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tin Woodsman: [Reading notice, all together] Bell out of order, please knock.

[Dorothy knocks]

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Well, that's more like it! Now, state your business!

Dorothy: [Dorothy and friends, all together] We want to see the Wizard!

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: [gasps] The Wizard? But nobody can see the Great Oz! Nobody's ever seen the Great Oz! Even I've never seen him!

Dorothy: Well, then how do you know there is one?

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Oh, you're wasting my time!

[starts to close the window]

Dorothy: Oh, please! Please, sir! I've got to see the Wizard! The Good Witch of the North sent me!

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Prove it!

Scarecrow: She's wearing the ruby slippers she gave her.

Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: Oh, so she is! Well, bust my buttons! Why didn't you say that in the first place? That's a horse of a different color! Come on in!