Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Quotes

"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.

‘It's the oldest rule in the book,’ said the King.
‘Then it ought to be Number One,’ said Alice.

'Begin at the beginning,’ the King said, gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

‘Will you walk a little faster?’ said a whiting to a snail.

‘That's the reason they're called lessons,’ the Gryphon remarked: ‘because they lessen from day to day.’

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

Off with her head!

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

‘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. ‘Why, you might just as well say that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see!” ’

This time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.

‘If everybody minded their own business,’ said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, ‘the world would go round a good deal faster than it does.’

‘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?’

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice.

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

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