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What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts — Lewis Carroll

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

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

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is. — Lewis Carroll

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away! — Lewis Carroll

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave. — Patrick Marber

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo. - Lewis Carroll

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo. — Lewis Carroll

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now. — Patrick Marber

Curiouser and curiouser. - Lewis Carroll

Curiouser and curiouser. — Lewis Carroll

"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

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to." — Lewis Carroll

Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. — Lewis Carroll

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. — Albert Einstein

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. — Stephen King

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

Short Alice Quotes

  • You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. — Anne Hathaway
  • If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
  • You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! — Lewis Carroll
  • It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll
  • Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. — Lewis Carroll
  • The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. — Lewis Carroll
  • It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch
  • If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. — Watts Humphrey
  • Why is a raven like a writing desk? — Lewis Carroll
  • It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. — Lewis Carroll

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Still Alice Quotes

In Alice in Wonderland one had to run fast to stand still, in the stock markets, one who stands still can really make money fast. — Thomas Phelps

Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again! — Michael Owen Bruce

Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again! — Michael Bruce

The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt it ought to be treated with respect. — Lewis Carroll

I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name. — Rachel Vincent

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. — Lewis Carroll

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom. — Suzanne Brockmann

Alice In Wonderland Alice Quotes

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? — Jeanette Winterson

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

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see? — Lewis Carroll

Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing. — Lewis Carroll

One can't believe impossible things. — Lewis Carroll

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

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

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does. — Lewis Carroll

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! — Lewis Carroll

Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? — Sylvia Plath

Alice In Wonderland Quotes

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar. — Lewis Carroll

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

Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs. — Adam Gopnik

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. — Lewis Carroll

'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss. — Grace Slick

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? — Lewis Carroll

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am. — Lewis Carroll

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation. — Alan Watts

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice. — Charles Manson

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness. — Lewis Carroll

Alice Adventures In Wonderland Quotes

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

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. — Lewis Carroll

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

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

'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

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

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them! — Lewis Carroll

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. — Lewis Carroll

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense." — Lewis Carroll

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

Alice In Wonderland Tea Quotes

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it. — Lewis Carroll

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter — Lewis Carroll

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life! — Lewis Carroll

We haven't any and you're too young. — Lewis Carroll

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. — Lewis Carroll

Alice In Wonderland Book Quotes

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies. — Lewis Carroll

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. — A. S. W. Rosenbach

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

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by — Lewis Carroll

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. — Lewis Carroll

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. — Lewis Carroll

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court. — Lewis Carroll

The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. — Alan Perlis

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up. — A. A. Milne

Alice In Wonderland Mad Quotes

Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice — Lewis Carroll

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up. — Lewis Carroll

And how do you know that you're mad? — Lewis Carroll

The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young. — Lewis Carroll

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More Alice Quotes

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends. — Rob Sheffield

Long before there was Marilyn Manson, long before there was Alice Cooper, way before Ozzy Osbourne, there was Screamin' Jay Hawkins — Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

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. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! — Lewis Carroll

I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now. — Alice Cooper

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all. — Lewis Carroll

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. — Rob Zombie

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world. — Walt Disney

'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

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost. — Lewis Carroll

She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "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 dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." — Lewis Carroll

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. — Lewis Carroll

I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting, My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine. Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams. — Chino XL

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. — Jello Biafra

I always tell people, 'Everything you’ve heard about Alice Cooper , you can believe maybe 40 percent of it. Everything you’ve ever heard about Keith Moon is true - and you’ve only heard 10 percent of it.' — Alice Cooper

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things. — Paula Rego

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty. — Lewis Carroll

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