30 Whimsical Alice In Wonderland Quotes That Are Timeless

“When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, “we went to school

“Have some wine,” the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. “I

“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 ca’n’t take

I quite agree with you, and the moral of that is – ‘Be what you would seem to be’ – or if you’d like it

“And the moral of that is — ’Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love, that makes the world go round!’”
“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by

“Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t think—”
“Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.

Tut, tut, child! Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.

“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March

“To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?”
“I suppose so,” said Alice.
“Well, then,” the Cat went on, “you see a

“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I — I hardly know, Sir, just

“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

Oh my ears and whiskers! I’m late, I’m late I’m late!

I’m older than you, and must know better.

The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!

Speak English! I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!

“How do you like the Queen?” said the Cat in a low voice.
“Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so extremely—” Just then she noticed that

I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin.

I do wish I hadn’t drunk quite so much!

I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is ‘What?’

Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in all

I wish I hadn’t cried so much! I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will

Curiouser and curiouser!

But it’s no use now, to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry.

Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if only I knew how to begin.

No, I’ll look first, and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think.

And what is the use of a book, without pictures or conversations?

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.