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Wonderland Quotes

1.
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

She is a perfect amalgamation of the Red Queen and a Flamingo, her demeanour being an exquisite blend of the two.
Authors on Wonderland Quotes: Lewis Carroll Cheshire Cat John Gimlette Alice Liddell Gyorgy Ligeti Dean Koontz Lauren Oliver Judy Delton Ashley Greene Frank Beddor Melanie Benjamin Yayoi Kusama Mark Steyn Connie Willis Nicki Minaj Paul Davies Michael Sheen Upton Sinclair Jodi Picoult Brie Larson Lena Dunham Elizabeth Wein Michael Stipe Truman Capote John Fowles Alan Perlis Gregory Maguire Beatrice Sparks Howard Pyle Suzanne Brockmann
2.
I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.
Yayoi Kusama

3.
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
Lewis Carroll

4.
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
Lewis Carroll

5.
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.
Lewis Carroll

6.
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!
Lewis Carroll

7.
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

8.
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

9.
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!
Lewis Carroll

10.
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

11.
Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
Lewis Carroll

12.
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.
Lewis Carroll

13.
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
Lewis Carroll

14.
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!
Lewis Carroll

15.
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.
Lewis Carroll

16.
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.
Lena Dunham

17.
"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

18.
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
Lewis Carroll

19.
I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
Lewis Carroll

20.
Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
Lewis Carroll

21.
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.
Lewis Carroll

22.
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Lewis Carroll

23.
You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
Lewis Carroll

24.
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.
Upton Sinclair

25.
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

26.
"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."
Lewis Carroll

27.
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
Lewis Carroll

28.
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!
Cheshire Cat

29.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
Lewis Carroll

30.
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

31.
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.
Lewis Carroll

32.
'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'
Lewis Carroll

33.
The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!
Alice Liddell

34.
I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.
Howard Pyle

35.
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.
John Gimlette

36.
Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.
Cheshire Cat

37.
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
Lewis Carroll

38.
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

39.
The Queen is dead and gone. Well, at least she's gone... for now. Long live Alice! Long live Wonderland.
Cheshire Cat

40.
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!
Lewis Carroll

41.
How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.
Lewis Carroll

42.
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

43.
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.
Brie Larson

44.
In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by
Lewis Carroll

45.
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.
Paul Davies

46.
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.
Mark Steyn

47.
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!
Lewis Carroll

48.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
Lewis Carroll

49.
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.
Michael Sheen

50.
I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic.
Ashley Greene