Alice In Wonderland Alice Quotes

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" "I suppose so," said Alice. "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

And how do you know that you're mad?

One can't believe impossible things.

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

If you don't know where you're going any road will do