Summary

this will be a quotes site, except it only has stuff from Alice and Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass) so far. sorted by topic, a bit. some of the quotes are WEIRD. do not make assumptions on my personality from them. i read the books, wrote down anything and (almost) everything that seemed to have a double meaning, or was just funny. those are in the random nonsense section. anything else- read at your own risk.

Random Nonsense

"Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talkig!"

"It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly abd simpley arranged; the only difficulty was that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it."

"I mean," she said, "that one can't help growing older." " one can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty, "but two can. With proper asistance, you might have left off at seven.:

"I'd rather see that done on paper."

"When I use a word... it means just that I choose it to mean- neither more or less."

"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."

"Of all the unsatisfactory people I ever met."

"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."

"An arm, you goose! Whoever saw one that size? Why, it fills up the whole window!" "Sure it does, yer honor, but it's an arm, for all that." "Well, it's got no business there, at any rate. Go and take it away!"

"Curiouser and curiouser."

"I never saw such a house for getting in the way."

"NO, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first, verdict afterward."

Where One Is

I'm sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!"

"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 twice as fast as that!"

"That's the effect of living backward," the Queen said kindly, "it always make one a little giddy first-"

And so she did, wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would.

"Unless- we're all part of the same dream."

Who One Is

"Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking! 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. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great question."

"I could tell you my adventures- beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly, "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!"

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

"It'll be no use putting their heads down and saying 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, 'Who am I? 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.'"
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"Speak French when you can't think of the English for a thing- turn out your toes as you walk- and remember who you are!"

"Then it really has happened, after all! And now, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I am determined to do it!" But being determined didn't help her very much...

"However, I know my name now, and that's some comfort. Alice- Alice- I won't forget it again."
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For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

"Not you!" Tweedle Dee retorted comtemptuously. "You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!" "If that there king were to wake," added Tweedle Dum, "You'd go out- bang- just like a candle!"

"Well, there's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedle Dum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."
"I am real!" said Alice, and began to cry.
"You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying," Tweedle Dee remarked. "There're nothing to cry about.:
"If I wasn't real," Alice said- half laughing through her tears; it all seemed so rediculous- "I shouldn't be able to cry."
"I hope you don't suppose there are real tears?" Tweedle Dum interrupted in a tone of great contempt.

confusedness, meloncholy

"You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick."

"I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's so dreadfully confusing."

"Dear dear! How queer everything is today."

"Only it is so very lonely here!"

And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited.

"Consider anything, only don't cry."

"It is wrong from beginning to end."

Food and Excess Morbidity

"She's kept none for herself, anyhow," said the Lion. "Do you like plum cake, Monster?"

"I suppose I should eat or drink something or other, but the great question is, what?"

"Or-let me see- suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner, then. I should have to go without fifty dinners all at once. Well, i shouldnt mind that much! I'd far rather go without them than eat them!"

"There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint."

She had heard stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasent things, because they would not remember... that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife it usually bleeds.

"It isn't etiquette to cut anyone you've been introduced to."

"You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can happen in a battle, to get one's head cut off."

"Give your evidence," said the King, "and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on the spot."

thinking, the mind, insanity

"I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedledum, "but it isn't so, no how." Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't so, it aint. That's logic."

"Thinking again?" the Duchess asked. "I've a right to think," said Alice sharply.

"She'll be feverish after so much thinking."

"She means well but she can't help saying foolish things, as a general rule."

"She's in that state of mind."

"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."