100+ Alice in Wonderland Quotes That Inspire & Captivate

“Curiouser and curiouser!”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“What is the use of a book… without pictures or conversations?”

“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?”

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

“How do you know I’m mad?” “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

“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 give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

“One day nothing happened at all. And that was very unusual.”

“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself, you see.”

“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.

“I’m not the same person anymore.”

“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.”

“I’m beginning to believe in nonsense.”

“I almost think I can hear music coming out of the forest—it’s always just beyond where I am.”

“The question is not ‘who am I?’ but ‘who do I choose to be?’”

“Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

“It takes all sorts to make a world.”

“I suppose I should have expected it, but I didn’t.”

“You may think you know what you mean, but your words don’t mean much to me.”

“Is it really true that people grow less strange as they grow older?”

“I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.”

“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“Have I gone mad?” “I’m afraid so. But let me tell you something—the best people usually are.”

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

“Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper.”

“There’s no use trying; one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice.”

“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”

“Confusion is a word my family has used for years.”

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

“Then you should say what you mean.” “But I do,” Alice hastily replied. “At least—I mean what I say—that’s the same thing, you know.”

“Off with their heads!”

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

“Time is a funny thing.”

“It’s always tea-time.”

“Can you remember what happened before you came here?”

“I’ve missed them! I’ve missed them! Where shall I find such another children?”

“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.”

“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday—but never jam today.”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”

“I like the name, but I don’t know what it means.”

“Time flies when you're having fun.”

“I wonder how long it’ll take me to fall to the bottom of the world?”

“I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.”

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

“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself, you see.”

“Then you should say what you mean.” “But I do,” Alice hastily replied. “At least—I mean what I say—that’s the same thing, you know.”

“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”

“Logic! We don’t want no stinkin’ logic!”

“It’s very easy to take more than you give, especially when you don’t know what you’re giving.”

“I only wanted to see what the garden was like—your Majesty.”

“Nothing can be as chaotic as silence.”

“I beg your pardon?” said Alice. “I hardly know what I’m talking about.”

“I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but everything here is upside down.”

“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.”

“Dreaming of things that never were and saying ‘why not?’”

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

“I must be shutting up like a telescope.”

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

“I thought it would be best to start from the beginning.”

“I wish I could shut up like a telescope: I think I should be able to pack myself away neatly.”

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”

“I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date!”

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

“Nothing ever happens quite as you expect.”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night?”

“Off with her head!”

“The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small—‘Off with his head!’”

“All ways here belong to me,” said the Duchess.

“Rule one: Never lose your temper.”

“The jury-box was empty: not one of them had even thought of returning.”

“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.”

“Speak when you’re spoken to.”

“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”

“The trial was over now, and the verdict was being delivered.”

“It doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat, “so long as you get somewhere.”

“The judge, by the way, was the King; and he wore his crown over his wig.”

“And who are these creatures?”

“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night?”

“I must be shutting up like a telescope.”

“I’m growing large again!”

“I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

“It was much pleasanter at home, when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

“I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.”

“I suppose I should have expected it, but I didn’t.”

“So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately…”

“I must be shutting up like a telescope: I think I should be able to pack myself away neatly.”

“I’m not the same person anymore.”

“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning?”

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, “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.”

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’” Alice said.

“It’s called a Looking-glass book, you know. If you hold it up to a glass, the words look right.”

“I beg your pardon?” said Alice. “I hardly know what I’m talking about.”

“I only wanted to see what the garden was like—your Majesty.”

“You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”

“You might just as well say that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!”

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper.”

“I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but everything here is upside down.”

“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself, you see.”

“Then you should say what you mean.”

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

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

“I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date!”

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”

“I wonder how long it’ll take me to fall to the bottom of the world?”

“I must be shutting up like a telescope.”

“I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit hole—and yet—and yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

“I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself, you see.”

“I only wanted to see what the garden was like—your Majesty.”

“I suppose I should have expected it, but I didn’t.”

“So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately…”

“I’m not the same person anymore.”