Red Queen Quotes:

'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.' 'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently. 'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Queens, Honesty, Children, Think Before You Speak, Red Queen

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

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Queens, Work, Done, Red Queen

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Queens, Red, Would Be, Red Queen

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

- Lewis Carroll

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

topic: Writing, Thinking, Feminist, Think Before You Speak, Red Queen

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

- Truman Capote

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Queens, Wonderland, Flamingos, Demeanor, Red Queen

"Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Dog, Queens, Science, Bite Me, Subtraction

"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Queens, Science, Knives, Subtraction, Red Queen

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Queens, White, Red, Red Queen

To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Queens, White, Glasses, Red Queen

If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.

- Ursula Vernon

topic: Queens, Book, Fate, Evolutionary Biology, Red Queen