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Alice in Wonderland is probably the most well-known work of Victorian literature. And, knowing the Victorians as being rapt for the morbs and the weirds, it is no wonder that this book is as fantastical and as unbelievably curious as the era itself. A true sign of the times! Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel shaped and influenced our own pop culture in many, many ways, and it is one of the very few books that hasn’t gone out of print since the day it was first published. And while most of the stuff the anthropomorphic creatures do and say in this book is understandable only if you are a child or under some mind-altering influence, some of the interesting quotes are worth taking note of. Wanna delve deeper into the fantastical world of Alice? Well then, you’ve come to precisely the right place, for this is an article dedicated entirely to Alice in Wonderland quotes! 

Some of these famous quotes are taken entirely out of context, which might seem like a bad idea at first, but an ‘Off with their heads!’ can, in fact, make perfect sense in your daily vocabulary. Some of these book quotes are also eerily inspiring, although you would expect no such thing when thinking about Alice in Wonderland as a whole. And, the deeper you go into these interesting quotes, the ‘Curiouser and curiouser’ it gets! So, prepare yourself for some unexpected giggles, a dose of creative inspiration, and an unveiling of life’s truths upon scrolling down below to meet our picks of the most popular quotes from Alice in Wonderland.

As per usual, don’t forget to vote for the cool quotes you think reveal the essence of this majestic book the most or maybe ring true to you. Once you are done with it, share these fantastic quotes with anyone in need of a bit of whimsy in their day.

#1

Alice: “Have I gone mad?"

The Mad Hatter: "I'm afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usually are.”

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#2

Cheshire Cat quote on being crazy “I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” – Cheshire Cat

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“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there” – Cheshire Cat

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If you don't know where I've been, you don't know where I'm coming from.

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"A dream is not reality, but who's to say which is which?" – The Mad Hatter

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#5

"We're all mad here." – Cheshire Cat

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Like working in a food service establishment with about 30 female employees and only 4 males?

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Duchess quote on thinking “You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk." – The Duchess

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#7

"The best way to explain it is to do it." – Dodo

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#8

Alice: "I don't think..."

Mad hatter: "Then you shouldn't talk."

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#9

“Not all who wander are lost.” – The White Rabit

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#10

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’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.”

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#11

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "And go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

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Cheshire Cat quote on being mad "You see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." – Cheshire Cat

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#13

"If you knew Time as well as I do," said the Hatter, "you wouldn't talk about wasting it."

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#14

“Every adventure requires a first step.” – Cheshire Cat

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#15

“I don’t see how he can ever finish if he doesn’t begin.” – Alice

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Cheshire Cat quote on being crazy “Never let anyone drive you crazy; it is nearby anyway and the walk is good for you.” – Cheshire Cat

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#17

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” – Caterpillar

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#18

“Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – The Queen

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#19

“Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul”

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#20

“I went to a hunting party once, I didn’t like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!” – Cheshire Cat

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Cheshire Cat quote on finding the way “Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some, don’t ever want to.” – Cheshire Cat

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#22

"A land was full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am." – The Mad Hatter

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#23

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” – The Red Queen

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#24

"Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.” – The Duchess

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#25

“Somehow you strayed and lost your way, and now there’ll be no time to play, no time for joy, no time for friends – not even time to make amends.” – Cheshire Cat

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#26

Alice quote on perception "It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then." – Alice

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#27

The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"

Alice: "Yes."

The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.”

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#28

"What a regrettably large head you have. I would very much like to hat it!" – The Mad Hatter

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#29

“Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper." – Old Crab

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#30

Alice quote on perception "'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!" – Alice

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#31

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.

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#32

“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 the Cat. "I don't much care where," said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "So long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "If you only walk long enough.”

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#33

“Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves.”

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#34

“The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours” – The Duchess

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#35

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

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Duchess quote on people "If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does."

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#37

“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see.” – Alice

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#38

“Yes, that's it! " said the Hatter with a sigh, "It's always tea time.”

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#39

“It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "When one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit hole and yet, and yet.”

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#40

“What a strange world we live in," said Alice to the Queen of hearts.

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#41

Alice quote on clock “What a funny watch! It tells the day of the month and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!" – Alice

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#42

“No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first—verdict afterward.”

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#43

"We never get compliments, you must have a cup of tea!" – The Mad Hatter

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#44

"Personal remarks are rude?" – The Mad Hatter

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#45

"I could have done it in a much more complicated way." – Red Queen

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#46

Alice quote on curiosity "Curiouser and curiouser!" – Alice

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#47

“I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different." – Alice

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#48

“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.” – Mock Turtle

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#49

"Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else" – Alice

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#50

“Then you should say what you mean" – March

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#51

Lory quote on age “I’m older than you, and must know better.” – Lory

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#52

“But I don’t want to go among mad people.” – Alice

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#53

Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very cautiously: "But I don’t understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?"

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#54

"I don't know what's the matter with it!" the Queen said, in a melancholy voice. "It's out of temper, I think. I've pinned it here, and I've pinned it there, but there's no pleasing it!"

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#55

"What a small world this is!" – The Mad Hatter

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#56

Caterpillar quote on traveling "Of course. Anyone can go by horse or rail, but the absolute best way to travel is by a hat. Have I made a rhyme?" – Caterpillar

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#57

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "But I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"

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#58

"I know a thing or two about liking people, and in time, after much chocolate and cream cake, ‘like’ turns into ‘what was his name again?'" – The Mad Hatter

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#59

"And her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah”

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#60

“Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!”

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#61

Alice quote on crying "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!” – Alice

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#62

"I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired
of being all alone here!” – Alice

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#63

“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!”

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#64

"Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?" – The Mad Hatter

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#65

The Mouse quote about tale “Mine is a long and a sad tale!" – The Mouse

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#66

“Important—unimportant—unimportant—important— as if he were trying which word sounded best.” – The King

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Alice in Wonderland quote on White Rabbit and daisies "Whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."

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"The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?" – The White Rabbit

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#69

“Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon."

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“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.”

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Alice in Wonderland quote on Wonderland “In Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality – the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds – the rattling teacups would”

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“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. “Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “Nine the next, and so on.” “What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice. “That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “Because they lessen from day to day.”

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#73

The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming “Off with her head! Off with—” “Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.

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#74

“I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the King: “However, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.”

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#75

“If you didn’t sign it,” said the King, “That only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.”

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#76

“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.” Everybody looked at Alice. “I’m not a mile high,” said Alice. “You are,” said the King. “Nearly two miles high,” added the Queen. “Well, I shan't go, at any rate,” said Alice; “Besides, that’s not a regular rule: you invented it just now.” “It’s the oldest rule in the book,” said the King. “Then it ought to be Number One,” said Alice.

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Alice in Wonderland quote on planing “It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very simply and neatly arranged, the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it.”

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“Once upon a time there were three little sisters," the Dormouse began in a great hurry; "And their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie, and they lived at the bottom of a well – " "What did they live on?" said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking.

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#79

"What’s the matter my dear, don’t you care for tea?" – The Mad Hatter

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#80

"What is the hatter with me?" – The Mad Hatter

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#81

"Egad, you learn something new every day." – The Mad Hatter

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#82

The Mad Hatter quote on time "No wonder you’re late. Why this watch is exactly two days slow." – The Mad Hatter

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#83

"Although, it was 150 years ago. It can’t be the same girl. Oysters don’t even live that long." – The Mad Hatter

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#84

“I didn’t mean it!” pleaded poor Alice. “But you’re so easily offended, you know!”

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#85

"Off with their heads!" – Red Queen

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#86

"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "Without pictures or conversation?"

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“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 the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation. “Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”

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Alice in Wonderland quote on crying “Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know.”

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#89

“I wish I hadn't cried so much!” – Alice

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#90

“Well, that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!” – Alice

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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.”

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#92

Alice quote on growing up “If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child, but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.” – Alice

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#93

“Keep your temper." – Caterpillar.

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#94

“Birds of a feather flock together” – The Duchess

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“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes.”

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"Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!" – The Mad Hatter

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#97

“I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could if I only knew how to begin.” – Alice

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Alice: “When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I'll write one—but I'm grown up now," she added in a sorrowful tone: "At least there's no room to grow up anymore here.”

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“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman, and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood.”

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#100

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

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Alice in Wonderland quote about two bottles "It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No, I’ll look first,' she said, 'And see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.'”

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#102

“I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other, but the great question is ‘What?’” – Alice

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#103

"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 the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on “—likely to win, that it’s hardly worthwhile finishing the game.”

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#104

“All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarreling with the other players, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.”

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#105

“‘Tis so,” said the Duchess: “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 everybody minding their own business!”
“Ah well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of that is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’”

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#106

March quote on being rude “It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited” – March

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#107

“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 in the sea. The master was an old Turtle—we used to call him Tortoise.” “Why did you call him Tortoise if he wasn’t one?” asked Alice. “We called him Tortoise because he taught us,” said the Mock Turtle angrily. “Really you are very dull!”

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#108

"I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward!" – Alice

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#109

“If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “That saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any.”

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#110

"Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?" – Alice

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#111

Quote from Alice in Wonderland "Your hair wants cutting," said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.

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#112

“And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

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#113

“He must have imitated somebody else's hand” – The King

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#114

“You know you say things are 'much of a muchness' — did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?” – Dormouse

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#115

"Oh, what a delightful child!" – The Mad Hatter

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The Mad Hatter quote on tea "Oh, tea! I never 'thought' of tea! Of course!" – The Mad Hatter

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"He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!" – The Mad Hatter

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#118

"I would very much like to hat it. I used to hat The White Queen, you know. Her head was so small." – The Mad Hatter

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#119

"Mustard! Yes, mu- mustard? Don’t let’s be silly! Lemon, that’s different." – The Mad Hatter

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#120

"I keep them to sell. I’ve none of my own. I’m a hatter." – The Mad Hatter

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#121

The Mad Hatter quote on time "I dare say you never even spoke to Time!" – The Mad Hatter

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#122

"The last... uhm... the last time a girl called Alice came here from your world, she brought down the whole House of Cards. Oh yeah. Made quite an impression." – The Mad Hatter

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#123

"He took his vorpal sword in hand, the vorpal blade went snicker-snack. He left it dead, and with its head, he went galumphing back. It's all about you, you know."

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#124

"Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards."

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#125

The Mad Hatter quote on Red Queen "Down with the bloody Red Queen!" – The Mad Hatter

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#126

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

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#127

"Two days wrong!" sighed the Hatter. "I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!" he added, looking angrily at the March Hare.

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"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

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