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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass QUOTES

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass QUOTES

1 " Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

2 " Curiouser and curiouser. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

4 " I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

5 " It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

6 " No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

7 " Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word! "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

8 " You're enough to try the patience of an oyster! "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

9 " How is it you can talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. 'I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.'
'Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily. 'Then you'll know why.'
Alice did so. 'It's very hard,' she said, 'but I don't see what that has to do with it.'
'In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft - so that the flowers are always asleep. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

10 " Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?'
'There's the tree in the middle,' said the Rose:'what else is it good for?'
'But what could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked.
'It could bark,' said the Rose. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

11 " At any rate I'd better be getting out of the wood, for really its coming on very dark. Do you think it's going to rain?'
Tweedledum spread a large umbrella over himself and his brother, and looked up into it.
'No, I don't think it is,' he said: 'at least - not under here. Nohow.'
'But it may rain outside?'
'It may - if it chooses,' said Tweedledee: 'we've got no objection. Contrariwise. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

12 " Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple. ‘I won’t!’ said Alice. ‘Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved. ‘Who cares for you?’ said Alice (she had grown to her full size by this time). ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’ At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her; she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tired to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face. ‘Wake up, Alice dear!’ said her sister. ‘Why, what a long sleep you’ve had!’ So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, 1865 "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

13 " and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know— "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

14 " It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves. "

― Martin Gardner , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

15 " Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. '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,' said the Cat.

'I don't much care where—' said Alice.

'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

'—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.

'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

16 " Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, '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. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

17 " And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'
What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

18 " It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

19 " She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

20 " 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 contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? "

― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass