Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Famous quotes

• “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”

  Chapter IIn context

  • Reading

• Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!

  Chapter IIn context

  • Time

• After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!

  Chapter IIn context

  • Comedy

• If you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

  Chapter IIn context

  • Advice
  • Comedy

• “Curiouser and curiouser!”

  Chapter IIIn context

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

  Chapter IIIn context

  • Animals

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

  Chapter IIIIn context

  • Clever Jabs
  • Talking

• Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.

  Chapter IIIIn context

  • Comedy
  • Success

• “I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m not myself, you see.”

  Chapter VIn context

• “Speak roughly to your little boy,
  And beat him when he sneezes:
  He only does it to annoy,
  Because he knows it teases.”

  Chapter VIIn context

  • Children
  • Comedy

• “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
  “Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
  “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
  “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

  Chapter VIIn context

  • Comedy

• “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”

  Chapter VIIIn context

  • Comedy

• “Exactly so,” said Alice.
  “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’!”

  Chapter VIIIn context

  • Talking

• Off with her head!

  Chapter VIIIIn context

  • Anger
  • Comedy

• “Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”

  Chapter IXIn context

  • Morality

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

  Chapter IXIn context

  • Advice
  • Writing

• We called him Tortoise because he taught us

  Chapter IXIn context

  • Comedy

• “Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic⁠—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”

  Chapter IXIn context

  • Comedy
  • Education

• 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?
  Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?

  Chapter XIn context

  • Animals
  • Dancing

• It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

  Chapter XIn context

  • Change
  • Time

• “No, no! The adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.”

  Chapter XIn context

  • Time

• “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”

  Chapter XIIIn context

  • Comedy
  • Laws

• “Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

  Chapter XIIIn context

  • Advice

• “Sentence first⁠—verdict afterwards.”

  Chapter XIIIn context

  • Justice

• “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!”

  Chapter XIIIn context

  • Clever Jabs

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