Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Quotes and Quotation

by Lewis Carroll

• All in the golden afternoon
  Full leisurely we glide;
  For both our oars, with little skill,
  By little arms are plied,
  While little hands make vain pretense
  Our wanderings to guide.
  • Opening poem, first verse.

• Thus grew the tale of Wonderland:
  Thus slowly, one by one,
  Its quaint events were hammered out—
  And now our tale is done
  And home we steer, a merry crew,
  Beneath the setting sun.
  • Opening poem, sixth verse

• ''Alice! a childish story take,
  And with a gentle hand
  Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
  In Memory's mystic band,
  Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
  Plucked in a far-off land.
  • Opening poem, final verse

• Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
  • First chapter, opening paragraph.

• There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the ordinary to hear the Rabbit say to itself 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!' ...but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out its waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice startled to her feet.
  • First chapter

• After a fall such as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs! ~ Alice, first chapter.

• If you drink from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. ~ first chapter

• Curiouser and curiouser! ~ Alice, Chapter 2

• Oh my fur and whiskers! ~ The White Rabbit, Chapter 4.

• 'I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.' ~ Chapter 5 (to the Caterpillar)

• 'You are old Father William,' the young man said,
  'And your hair has become very white;
  And yet you incessantly stand on your head—
  Do you think at your age it is right?'
  • Alice, Chapter 5

• 'You don't know much,' said the Duchess,'And that's a fact.' ~ the Duchess, Chapter 6

• '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 Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.' ~ Chapter 6

• Why is a raven like a writing desk? ~ The Mad Hatter, Chapter 7

• I told you butter wouldn't suit the works, The Mad Hatter (about his watch) ~ Chapter 7

• Twinkle twinkle little bat!/How I wonder what you're at! ~ Mad Hatter, Chapter 7

• You know you say that things are 'much of a muchness'— did you ever see a drawing of a muchness? ~ Mad Hatter, Chapter 7

• Off with his head! ~ The Queen of Hearts, Chapter 8 and passim

• We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' the Mock Turtle, Chapter 9

• Sentence first, verdict afterwards. The Queen of Hearts ~ Chapter 12

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