Alice Adventures In Wonderland Quotes:

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

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (1963). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.36, Collector's Library

topic: Book, Alice In Wonderland Alice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book, Alice In Wonderland Book

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Cat, Mad, People, Humpty Dumpty, Deep Life

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

- Lewis Carroll

source: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Book by Lewis Carroll, November 26, 1865.

topic: White, Long, Forever, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice In Wonderland Alice

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Happiness, Sweet, Advice, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Would Be, World, Nonsense, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice In Wonderland Book

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

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, People, Secret, Children's Books, All The Best

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Life, Success, Art, Introspection, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

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

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

topic: Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass, Said, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Summer, Dream, Lying, Lingering, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Education, Ambition, Turtles, Mock, Derision

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Cute, Children's Books, Duchess

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!

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Running, Want, Modernity, Queen Of Hearts, Red Queen

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Poison, Bottles, Drink, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book

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.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Adventure, Way, Care, Which Way To Go, Adventure And Life

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

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

"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."

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Tea, Tone, March, Hares, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

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

- Lewis Carroll

source: Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

topic: Book, Reading, Wonderland, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book

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.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

topic: Morning, Thinking, Wonderland, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice In Wonderland Alice

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

- Lewis Carroll

source: Kenneth Grahame, Lewis Carroll, J.M. Barrie, Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Modern Library Collection Children's Classics 5-Book Bundle: The Wind in the Willows, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers”, p.425, Modern Library

topic: Children, Thinking, Pigs, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice In Wonderland Alice

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, Time, Careers, Inspirational Tattoo, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

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

- Lewis Carroll

source: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

topic: Food, Cooking, Might, Hares, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

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.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Imagination, Identity, Wonderland, Duchess, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Through The Looking Glass

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Patience, Adventure, Firsts, Keep Patience, No Patience

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!

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Morning, Night, Thinking, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Silence, Mouths, Lasts, Caterpillars, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

- Lewis Carroll

source: Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 2 (1865)

topic: Water, Shining, Tails, Crocodiles, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2014). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

topic: Flames, Fancy, Remember, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Sweet, Sky, Tea, Trays, Twinkling

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!

- Lewis Carroll

source: Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

topic: Inspirational, Queens, Believe, Impossible Dream, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

- Lewis Carroll

source: Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 1 (1865)

topic: Book, Reading, Tired, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice And Wonderland Book

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Domestic Violence, Violence, Serpent, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics

topic: Moral, Duchess, Mustard, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Years, Long, Together, Wordplay, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Natural, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: That CUPCAKE was off her head!”, p.23, Oldcastle Books

topic: Believe, Speak English, Long, Long Words, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

One can't believe impossible things.

- Lewis Carroll

source: 1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 5,'Wool and Water'.

topic: Believe, Math, Impossible Things, Impossible Dream, Possible And Impossible

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Children, Thinking, Moral, Duchess, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

topic: Caterpillars, Said, Temper, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2017). “Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books”, p.55, Lulu.com

topic: Turtles, Waiting, Lobster, Porpoises, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

- Lewis Carroll

source: Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 5 (1865)

topic: Father, Talking, Law, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Beautiful, Food, Soup, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Winning, Prize, Dodo Bird, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

And how do you know that you're mad?

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Mad, Alice Adventures In Wonderland, Alice In Wonderland Alice, Alice In Wonderland Mad

'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Wine, Tea, Tone, Hares, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Dance, Alice Adventures In Wonderland