For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a k… - L. Frank Baum

" "
For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king’s decree of a scholar’s essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.

L. Frank Baum

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (15 May 1856 – 6 May 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Lyman Frank Baum

Alternative Names: Captain Hugh Fitzgerald • Suzanne Metcalf • Schuyler Staunton • Edith Van Dyne • George Brooks • Louis F. Baum • Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald • Pete • Dugout • Floyd Akers • Laura Bancroft • John Estes Cooke

All quotes from L. Frank Baum Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like L. Frank Baum:

T. H. White Terry Pratchett Charles Dickens John Steinbeck Mark Twain

Additional quotes by L. Frank Baum

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.

"the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out."

For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king’s decree of a scholar’s essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature an… - L. Frank Baum

About L. Frank Baum

Also Known As

Limited Time Offer

Additional quotes by L. Frank Baum