Wonderland Quotes

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

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

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

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?

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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.

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

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." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

"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."

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

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

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

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

If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

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

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

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!

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

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

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

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.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

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.

The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland.

It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key.

Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.

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

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

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!

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

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

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

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

When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.