Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Through The Looking-Glass Quotes
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Alice, "a great girl like you," (she might well say this), "to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!"
"How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night?"
"The best way to explain it is to do it." (on explaining a Caucus-race)
"I’m sure I’m not Ada," she said, "for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all; and I’m sure I ca’n’t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh, she knows such a very little!"
"Well, perhaps not," said Alice in a soothing tone: "don’t be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah. I think you’d take a fancy to cats, if you could only see her."
"It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry."
"The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."
"I know something interesting is sure to happen whenever I eat or drink anything."
"That's quite enough—I hope I sha'n’t grow any more."
"I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole."
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself, you see."
"One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter."
"It's no use speaking to it till its ears have come, or at least one of them."
"Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?"
"Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, waiting in a hot tureen!"
"Give your evidence," said the King; "and don’t be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot."
"Who cares for fish, game, or any other dish?"
"I've so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, 'There was some attempt at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court.'"
"The trial cannot proceed until all the jurymen are back in their proper places."
"I should think it would be quite as much use in the trial one way up as the other."
"Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court."
"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
"It’s a curious dream, dear, certainly; but now run in to your tea."
"I’m sure it’ll be easy enough to get through."
"Now, here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day."
"Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
"A present given when it isn’t your birthday, of course."
"And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five, what remains?"
"That seems to be done right—though I haven’t time to look it over thoroughly just now."
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is, which is to be master—that’s all."
"They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest."