Notable Quotes

““and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?””

““Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!””

““she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it””

““In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get …”

““Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?””

““I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.””

““Do cats eat bats?””

““‘DRINK ME,’ beautifully printed on it in large letters.””

““No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not””

““What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a telescope.””

““Come, there’s no use in crying like that!””

““Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.””

““Silence in the court!””

““They’re putting down their names,” the Gryphon whispered.”

““The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,””

““The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,””

““Consider your verdict,” the King said to the jury.”

““Not yet, not yet!” the Rabbit hastily interrupted.”

““and don’t be nervous, or I’ll have you executed on the spot.””

““You’ve no right to grow here,” said the Dormouse.”

““Of course twinkling begins with a T!””

““You’re a very poor speaker,” said the King.”

““I’m glad I’ve seen that done,” thought Alice.”

““Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiske…”

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

“Good-bye, feet!”

“Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!”

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”

“four times five is twelve”

“London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,”

“How cheerfully he seems to grin,”

“I must be growing small again.”

“I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!”

“O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool?”

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”

“Then it ought to be Number One.”

“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

“The idea of having the sentence first!”

“If there’s no meaning in it, that saves a world of trouble”

“I don’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it.”

“Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course,”

“Off with her head!”

“You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”

“Wake up, Alice dear!”

“and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood”

“a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank”

“I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—”

“Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words”

“the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.”

“Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.”

“We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;”

“This is the driest thing I know.”

“Mine is a long and a sad tale!”

“It is a long tail, certainly,”

“I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,”

“She’ll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!”

“I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!”

“The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure a…”

“Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?”

“How queer it seems to be going messages for a rabbit!”

“I know something interesting is sure to happen whenever I eat or drink anything.”

“one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney”

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

“Shall I never get any older than I am now?”

“If you do, I’ll set Dinah at you!”

“the pebbles were all turning into little cakes”

“The first thing I’ve got to do is to grow to my right size again”

“her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar”

““Who are you?” ”

““because I’m not myself, you see.””

““Keep your temper,””

““It is wrong from beginning to end,””

““What size do you want to be?””

““three inches is such a wretched height to be.””

““One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.””

““an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk””

““I’m not a serpent!””

““I—I’m a little girl,””

““I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another!””

“It’s enough to drive one crazy!”

“There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!”

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

“I never could abide figures!”

“Speak roughly to your little boy,”

“If you’re going to turn into a pig, my dear, I’ll have nothing more to do with you.”

“it was neither more nor less than a pig,”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”

“Oh, you can’t help that: we’re all mad here.”

“Did you say pig, or fig?”

“Oh, you’re sure to do that, if you only walk long enough.”

“but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!”

“There’s plenty of room!”

“There isn’t any.”

“You should learn not to make personal remarks.”

“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”

“Then you should say what you mean.”

“‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”

“If you knew Time as well as I do, you wouldn’t talk about wasting it.”

“It’s always six o’clock now.”

“He’s murdering the time! Off with his head!”

“Like a tea-tray in the sky.”

“did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?”

“Then you shouldn’t talk.”

“It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!”

“Why, they’re only a pack of cards, after all. I needn’t be afraid of them!”

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“Off with her head! Off—”

“Get to your places!”

“She’s under sentence of execution.”

“How are you getting on?”

“A cat may look at a king,”

“the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes,”

“I don’t think they play at all fairly,”

“you couldn’t cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from:”

“anything that had a head could be beheaded,”

“The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small.”

““Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.””

““Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.””

“‘Be what you would seem to be’”

““I’ve a right to think,””

““either you or your head must be off””

““Off with his head!””

““they never executes nobody, you know.””

““I was a real Turtle.””

““We called him Tortoise because he taught us,””

““Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.””

““‘French, music, and washing—extra.’””

““because they lessen from day to day.””

“You can have no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!”

“Change lobsters again!”

“Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure.”

“Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?”

“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

“I mean what I say.”

“it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“Explanations take such a dreadful time.”

“How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!”

“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,”

“She had sat down with her face in her hands, wondering if anything would ever happen in a natural wa…”

“The trial’s beginning!”