100+ Alice in Wonderland Book Quotes That Inspire & Captivate

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

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

"We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

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

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself, you see."

"There's no use trying; one can't believe impossible things."

"Nothing is ever accomplished by being sensible."

"Only mad people are happy."

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

"No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise."

"You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see!'"

"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of it!"

"Who are you?" said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

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

"I'm not the same, you know."

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

"Sometimes I think I'm going mad. Other times I'm absolutely certain."

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

"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"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!"

"My name is Alice, but—"

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

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

"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).

"I should like to know once in my life what it means to finish anything."

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

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

"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 wonder what I should be like if I were not like me?"

"I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen…"

"I must be shutting up like a telescope."

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

"I don’t know where I’m going, but I must be getting somewhere."

"I promise you that if you knew Time as well as I do… you wouldn’t talk about wasting it."

"I begin to understand what nonsense means."

"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."

"I can’t believe that!" said Alice. "Can’t you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

"There’s no use arguing with me. I’m always right."

"Sentences end with a full stop, not with a semicolon."

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too!"

"Logic! Why, logic'll get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"It’s very interesting. I once tasted a bit of mushroom for breakfast, and it entirely changed my thoughts."

"You might just as well say that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"

"I call it humpty dumpty because it looks like one," said Humpty Dumpty.

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning."

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

"The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

"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!"

"I must be shutting up like a telescope."

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

"So you think you’re changed, do you?" "I’m afraid I am, Sir," said Alice. "I can’t remember things as I used to."

"Well, I hardly know—don’t put the blame on me if I’m not the same. The factory’s altered me."

"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 must be getting somewhere," Alice thought. "However, the journey is rather confusing."

"I feel strange and queer!"

"How puzzling all these changes are!"

"First I’m small, then I’m tall, then I’m small again. Who am I really?"

"It’s very uncomfortable changing sizes so often."

"I wonder if I grow at all? One can’t help growing older, but one can remain young at heart."

"Time is an abstract concept, and I refuse to be bound by its rules."

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"It’s always tea-time."

"I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date!"

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

"It’s very easy to take more than nothing, and very hard to take less."

"Memory is a strange thing. When I want to remember something, I forget it; when I don’t, it comes rushing back."

"I used to know the meaning of every word before I learned to speak."

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

"The past is always present in Wonderland."

"Forever is composed of nows."

"Time flies, but in Wonderland, it dances."

"Off with her head!"

"Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!"

"The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!'"

"Rules are meant to be broken—especially in Wonderland."

"I make the rules!"

"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.

"All ways here belong to me!"

"Speak when you’re spoken to!"

"I won’t be judged by a pack of cards!"

"You have no right to command me!"

"Just because I’m smaller than you are doesn’t mean I’m inferior."

"Power doesn’t prove truth."

"The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"Words are tools, and I choose my tools carefully."

"If language weren’t ambiguous, half the fun would be lost."

"It’s what the word means to me that matters."

"Names are important, but meanings matter more."

"I don’t know the meaning of half the words I say, but they sound beautiful."

"Spelling counts, even in Wonderland."

"A sentence should have a beginning, a middle, and an end—but not necessarily in that order."

"Puns are the highest form of wit."

"Grammar is a guide, not a prison."

"Silence can be the loudest statement."

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

"Now I see the dream was real, and the world is the illusion."

"Dreams are truer than waking."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"I can believe six impossible things before breakfast."

"Everything’s possible, even the impossible."

"The best dreams are the ones you don’t wake up from."

"In dreams, we live many lives."

"Wonderland isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind."

"Let your thoughts run wild."

"Fantasy is the truth of the soul."

"If you can imagine it, it exists somewhere."

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

"Be what you would seem to be."

"Kindness is the key to the heart."

"Politeness is a sign of respect, not weakness."

"It’s always better to have said no than to regret saying yes."

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

"Don’t let anyone tell you who you are."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but doing what’s right despite it."

"Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it’s still truth."

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

"Judge not, lest ye be judged."

"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching."