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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.
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#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
“I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” – Cheshire Cat
#3
“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there” – Cheshire Cat
#4
"A dream is not reality, but who's to say which is which?" – The Mad Hatter
#5
"We're all mad here." – Cheshire Cat
#6
“You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk." – The Duchess
#7
"The best way to explain it is to do it." – Dodo
#8
Alice: "I don't think..."
Mad hatter: "Then you shouldn't talk."
#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.”
#11
“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "And go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
#12
"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
#16
“Never let anyone drive you crazy; it is nearby anyway and the walk is good for you.” – Cheshire Cat
#17
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” – Caterpillar
#18
“Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – The Queen
#19
“Little Alice fell down the hole, bumped her head and bruised her soul”
#20
“I went to a hunting party once, I didn’t like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!” – Cheshire Cat
#21
“Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some, don’t ever want to.” – Cheshire Cat
#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
#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
#24
"Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.” – The Duchess
#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
#27
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes."
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.”
#28
"What a regrettably large head you have. I would very much like to hat it!" – The Mad Hatter
#30
"'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!" – Alice
#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.
#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.”
#34
“The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours” – The Duchess
#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!”
#36
"If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
#37
“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see.” – Alice
#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.”
#40
“What a strange world we live in," said Alice to the Queen of hearts.
#41
“What a funny watch! It tells the day of the month and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!" – Alice
#44
"Personal remarks are rude?" – The Mad Hatter
#45
"I could have done it in a much more complicated way." – Red Queen
#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
#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
#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?"
#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!"
#55
"What a small world this is!" – The Mad Hatter
#56
"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
#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!"
#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
#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”
#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!”
#62
"I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired
of being all alone here!” – Alice
#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!”
#66
“Important—unimportant—unimportant—important— as if he were trying which word sounded best.” – The King
#67
"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."
#68
"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
#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."
#70
“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.”
#71
“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”
#72
“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.”
#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.
#74
“I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the King: “However, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.”
#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.”
#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.
#77
“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.”
#78
“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.
#83
"Although, it was 150 years ago. It can’t be the same girl. Oysters don’t even live that long." – The Mad Hatter
#87
“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.”
#88
“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.”
#90
“Well, that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!” – Alice
#91
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.”
#92
“If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child, but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.” – Alice
#95
“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.”
#96
"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
#97
“I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could if I only knew how to begin.” – Alice
#98
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.”
#99
“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.”
#100
“How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think" – Alice
#101
"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.'”
#102
“I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other, but the great question is ‘What?’” – Alice
#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.”
#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.”
#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.’”
#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!”
#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
#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.”
#111
"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.
#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.”
#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
#117
"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
#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
#119
"Mustard! Yes, mu- mustard? Don’t let’s be silly! Lemon, that’s different." – The Mad Hatter
#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
#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."
#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.
#127
"Two days wrong!" sighed the Hatter. "I told you butter wouldn't suit the works!" he added, looking angrily at the March Hare.
#128
"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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